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In the matter of publications, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
has adopted the plan of printing enough copies to supply our 
European exchanges and subscribers and storing them until such 
time.as sanity and order may be restored in the world. 
We should mention here the admirable plan of the American 
Library Association of placing a limited number of subscriptions 
for foreign scientific and educational periodicals for institutional 
subscribers in the countries at war, arranging to have the pub- 
lishers store the copies as published until authorized to make 
delivery after the cessation of hostilities. Under this plan we 
have received 40 subscriptions to Ecology and 30 to Genetics for 
the 1941 volumes. Renewals for 1942 are also anticipated. 
Our printers have assured us that they have provided paper 
stock sufficient for our various publications for one and possibly 
two years, unless there should be some unanticipated change in 
the situation. 
New York City Defense [emergency 
The first week in June we received Mayor LaGuardia’s De- 
fense Emergency Order No. 1, giving notice of the establishment 
of a Fire Department Auxiliary Corps and a Corps of Local Fire 
Wardens to function under the immediate direction of the Fire 
Defense Coordinator and appointing Patrick Walsh, Fire Com- 
missioner and Acting Chief of the Fire Department, as Co- 
ordinator. 
The letter called upon the heads of all City Departments, 
Bureaus, and Agencies to compile “a list of the names, ages, and 
home telephone numbers of all male employees between the ages 
group 1A of the Se- 
lective Service Act, who are not now on military duty, and who 
are not crippled.”’ The Botanic Garden prepared such a list and 
forwarded it to the Mayor as requested, together with a duplicate 
to the Fire Defense Coordinator. This list constituted the basis 
of a Fire Department Auxiliary Corps. Each Agency was in- 
structed “to sce to it that unlimited cooperation and assistance 
is given to the Fire Defense Coordinator in discharging the 
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of 18 and 55, who are not now classified in 
duties of his office.’ 
