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Number of Pupils and Teachers Reached by Public Education 



Activities, 1922 



At the Botanic Garden 



Visiting classes from schools 40,529 



Botanic Garden classes 19,654 



Lectures to children 16,850 



Conferences with teachers (34) 300 



77,333 



Extension Activities 



Attendance at lectures given at schools 16,978 



Study material supplied 



Teachers 1,842 



Pupils 70,386 



Loan lectures (lantern slides and text). 



Teachers a> 



Pupils 5|420 



Seed packets for school and home planting. 



Teachers 4|053 



Pupils 7 6 >52 8 



Group conferences with teachers by request concerning 

 methods and plans; 20 conferences: 



Number of teachers attending 3,892 



Number of pupils whose work was improved and en- 

 riched as a result of these conferences 120.462 



Nature talks to Boy Scouts and others 4,484 299,603 



Total number of teachers and pupils reached j8 1,420 



Work with Defective Children. —On October 23, Miss Shaw, 

 accompanied by Miss Sanders, went to the Children's Psycho- 

 pathic Ward of Bellevue Hospital, and taught a lesson in the 

 outdoor garden. On November 3, Miss Sanders gave these 

 children a lesson on the indoor planting of bulbs, and on Novem- 

 ber 27, another lesson on the making of window boxes, taking 

 with her some Boston ferns potted up by our children in our 

 children's greenhouse. On the same date she also gave them a 

 lesson on Christmas trees, and how to know the evergreens. On 

 November 23 a class of 30 crippled children from Public School 

 26, Brooklyn, came to the Garden in a motor bus and were given 

 special permission to drive about the grounds under the guidance 

 of a Botanic Garden Instructor. 



