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is the first gift of money received for this work. Two weeks 
later (May 26) the Parents’ Club of Emmanuel House also 
contributed $5.00 for the same purpose. Such gifts are doubly 
valued by the Botanic Garden because of the interest and con- 
fidence in our work, of which they are substantial evidence. 
On Saturday, April 20, the first section of the new zoological 
building, in Prospect Park, was opened with formal exercises. 
The funds for the ercetion of this building were raised by private 
subscription. Brief addresses were made by the Park Commis- 
sioner, Hon. Raymond V. Ingersoll, Hon. Geo. V. Brower (park 
commissioner when the first animal was acquired for a “zoo” in 
Prospect Park in 1885), Mr. Herbert F. Gunnison, of the Brook- 
lyn Eagle, Mrs. John J. Schoonhoven, representing women’s 
clubs, and the director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Mr. 
Albert F’. Pratt, president of the Brooklyn Zoological Association, 
presided. 
At a meeting of the Woman’s Farm and Garden Association 
(formerly the Women’s Horticultural and pee Associa- 
tion) on June 8, 1916, Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, of the Garden 
staff was appointed chairman of a committee on children’s 
gardens. At the annual meeting in Boston, May 18, 1916, Miss 
Shaw was also elected a member of the council. Miss Cross, also 
of the Garden staff, is recording secretary of the Association. 
The Florists’ Exchange for May 6, 1916, contained a very ap- 
preciative article entitled, “‘ Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Notable 
Developments.” Special mention was made of the spring plant- 
ing for 1916, of the Japanese garden, and of the new rock garden, 
as well as of the wild flowers in bloom in the Garden in early 
May. 
Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel, who has spent the past eight months 
in travel and botanical investigations in Sweden, Norway, Ger- 
many, and Switzerland on the Cutting travelling fellowship, of 
Columbia University, is spending the summer at the Garden as 
resident investigator, giving special attention to the life history 
of Plasmodiophora on cabbage and other crucifers, and to the 
powdery scab (Spongospora) on potato. While abroad Dr. 
