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‘8. To extend and improve our educational work with children, based on 
a study of plant life. In 1916 the attendance of children in all c es 
offered at the Garden was nearly 18,000. Considering that AS ae at 
many of these courses is wholly voluntary, and is consecutive for each 
child for periods varying from six weeks to six months, this attendance is 
striking evidence of the demand for this work, as well as of its value and 
interest for the child. Our work of public instruction, including extra 
mural lectures, reached a total of over 40,000 children and adults during 
Ig16 
g. To increase our educational opportunities for adults. An important 
phase of this work is our year’s course for the preparation of teachers of 
gardening. The need of adequately prepared garden teachers, both locally 
and eee the country, is far greater than the supply. 
ooperate with the public and private schools of the city in im- 
proving TAGE instruction in nature study and botany. Over 8,500 pupils 
of Brooklyn schools visited the Garden in classes, scone by their 
teachers, in 1916, an increase of more than 1,900 over I915. 
1. To extend our opportunities for botanical me eeacton by the estab- 
lishment of research fellowships and curatorships, and by providing the 
necessary equipment for such wor 
12. To complete the plant disease survey of the trees and shrubs of 
Prospect Park, begun in 1916. The information obtained by such a survey 
will be freely placed at the disposal of the Park Department. The Be 
expense must be met by private funds. In addition to rendering a valu 
ble service to the city, this survey will, no doubt, result in a Sie 
contribution to our knowledge of the causes and control of plant diseases, 
and especially those of woody plants 
13. To enrich our botanical library so that it may adequately serve the 
needs of a first-class scientific institution, as well as of the general public. 
At least $5,000 could be expended at once for publications urgently needed. 
The total value of the publications in our library on December 31, 1916, 
was nearly $17,000, all of which has been provided from private sources 
during the past six years. 
o provide for the growth of our herbarium so that it may serve the 
increasing needs of a Botanic Garden having large collections of living 
lan 
ie To afford better facilities for botanical publication, both technical 
and popular. The need of enlarged ay for publishing the results 
of botanical research is very urgent. The American Journal of Botany 
(published by the Garden in ee ta with the Botanical Society of 
America) should appear twelve.months a year instead of ten, as now, 
and the number of pages should be greatly increased. The Garden also 
needs funds for the publication of scientific Memoirs, as well as for its 
very popular Leaflets 
. To increase the present endowment fund from $78,500 to not less 
than $500,000. The amount expended from private funds in 1916, merely 
