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specimens for the herbarium. The latter, together with specimens 

 from other collections, are all being checked with the manuscript 

 list of species of Long Island plants. There must, however, be a 

 good deal more of such work before we are justified in getting out 

 a flora of Long Island. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Norman Taylor, 

 Curator of Plants and Plantations. 



REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 



FOR 1922 



Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Director. 



Sir: I beg to submit herewith my report for the year ending 

 December 31, 1922: 



Public Lectures 



During the year the following public lectures were delivered at 

 the Garden : 



1. March 23. — The Flora of Greenland: Its Affinity to Sur- 

 rounding Arctic Lands and Probable History. Dr. Morten P. 

 Porsild, Director of the Danish Arctic Station, Disco, Greenland. 



2. April 7. — The Cultivation of Woodland Flowers. Mr. Nor- 

 man Taylor, Curator of Plants, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



3. April 14.- — English Gardens. Miss Hilda Loines, President 

 of the Woman's Auxiliary, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



4. April 16. — The Virgin Forest of Java. Professor J. P. 

 Lotsy, Research Fellow, Dutch Academy of Sciences, Velp, Hol- 

 land. 



5. April 21. — American Forests and the Necessity for Regrowth. 

 Professor J. W. Tourney, Yale School of Forestry, New Haven, 

 Conn. 



6. April 28. — The Civic Value of Botanic Gardens. Dr. C. 

 Stuart Gager, Director, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 



7. October 7. — A Garden Pilgrimage in England. Mr. Mon- 

 tague Free, Horticulturist, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



8. October 14. — The Origin of Cultivated Plants. Dr. Orland 

 E. White, Curator of Plant Breeding, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



