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The Garden also received a ‘Certificate of Merit’ for its 
exhibit of “Lenten Roses” (/felleborus orientalis varieties). 
Lhe Llorticultural Committee of the Garden Club of America 
held a meeting at the Garden on December 9. Programs were 
arranged for both morning and afternoon, with luncheon in the 
Laboratory Building from 12 to 1:15. Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Scott, 
of Swarthmore, Pa., presided as chairman, and delegates were 
present from several states. Unfortunately, near the end of the 
luncheon, word was reccived by radio that enemy airplanes were 
approaching New York. This report was confirmed on tele- 
phoning the office of a local newspaper. A precipitate ‘“adjourn- 
ment” resulted, much to the distress and disappointment of the 
few who felt that the program should be carried out as planned. 
Subsequent expressions were to the effect that the meeting was 
an entire success up to the moment of ‘adjournment.’ It is 
hardly necessary to state that the heralded air raid never ma- 
terialized. The event was suggestive as to what may be expected 
if an air raid actually occurs. 
The Museums Council of New York. In the spring it came to 
the attention of the Council that officials and research experts 
from various countries in South and Central America were 
visiting the United States, and would from time to time continue 
to do so under the auspices of the Committee for International 
Cooperation in Latin America, Nelson P. Rockefeller, Chairman. 
Realizing that many of these representatives would inevitably 
visit New York City the council prepared a list of the Museums, 
Librarics, Historic Houses, Botanie Gardens, Zoological Parks, 
and Aquarium within the Greater City, and this was sent to all 
such visitors with a cordial invitation to visit these institutions, 
and to make full use of their facilities. The Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden was one of the cooperating institutions. 
SPRING INSPECTION 
The annual Spring Inspection was held as usual on the second 
Tuesday in May—the 13th. This was the twenty-seventh 
inspection. The weather was perfect, and about 550 officials, 
members, and their friends attended. Fourteen groups of guests 
were taken for the tour of the grounds by members of the Garden 
