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Personal Classwork 
In 1923, besides devoting an average of two afternoons a week 
to the teaching of botany in the gardener’s training school, I con- 
ducted two public courses, one in the spring, on the trees and 
shrubs of Brooklyn and vicinity, and the other in the fall, on 
trees and shrubs in their winter condition. In collaboration with 
Dr. Gundersen I delivered part of the lectures in the public course 
in the spring on the “ Evolution and Classification of Plants.” 
Also, once a week, I have conducted a course in General Botany 
attended by teachers of nature study and biology. 
In Boy Scout work, I was appointed during the past year 
special examiner by the Brooklyn Council of Boy Scouts in the 
following subjects: agriculture, botany, conservation, forestry, 
and gardening. Several tests in these topics have been conducted. 
Editorial Work 
During the year I have continued to serve on the Editorial 
Board of the American Journal of Botany, as well as acting as 
Assistant Editor of the Botanical Education section of Botanical 
Abstracts. 
Publicity 
In this connection, it may be noted that attractive colored 
posters descriptive of the Garden and its various features have 
been framed and placed in all the high schools and high school 
annexes of the Borough, as well as in the principal libraries. 
We have continued our policy of sending to the various Brook- 
lyn and New York papers weekly instalments of news items re- 
lating to the Garden, in order that the public may be kept in- 
formed about the lectures, the commencement of courses, plants 
in bloom, new plants added to the collections, results of scientific 
research, and other activities. The papers have maintained the 
hearty support of the previous years, devoting from a few inches 
to half a page to Brooklyn Botanic Garden items. Two Lon 
Island papers, the Garden City News, and the Long Island Daily 
Press and Farmer, have signified their desire to receive the weekly 
notes. By the purchase of a mimeograph, this work is much sim- 
plified and its possibilities increased; moreover the machine is 
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