69 



and shelving space have been arranged so as to add materially to 

 the efficiency of the work. 



The Boys' and Girls' Club room, a gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, 

 was opened during the spring of 1922. This room has been a 

 great help and offers another opportunity for intensive educational 

 work. Every Saturday some exhibit which is a part of our nature 

 or garden work is placed in the room. Boys and girls are assigned 

 to explain such exhibits to the younger children or the general 

 public. The care and control of the room is under a committee of 

 boys and girls. Each Saturday morning two investigators are 

 appointed to go through the greenhouses, seek out whatever plants 

 seem to be of special interest, make notes about such plants, dictate 

 a notice and post it on the bulletin board, then act as guides through 

 the greenhouses. 



Departmental Changes 



Miss Edna Burtis, who graduated from our normal course for 

 teachers of children's gardening and nature study in 19 17, and who 

 was made instructor March 1, 1919, resigned on March 31, 1922. 

 The vacancy was filled on April 1, 1922, by the appointment of 

 Miss Edith R. Sanders. Miss Sanders graduated from the Lowell 

 (Mass.) High School and also from Wheaton College (Norton, 

 Mass.) in 1916, and from the State Normal School at Lowell in 

 1918, taking special studies there in 1919. From March, 1919, to 

 June, 192 1, she was assistant supervisor of nature study at Newton. 

 Mass., and from September, 1921, to April I, 1922, science teacher 

 in the Junior High School, Hackensack, N. J. 



Miss Eugenie Blank, a graduate of our first teachers' class 

 (1914) and for four years connected with the department, resigned 

 June 30. Her position was filled July 1 by Miss Maude L. Hickok, 

 of the Botanic Garden teachers' class of 1916. Miss Hickok was 

 teacher of gardening at the Fairview Garden School, Yonkers, 

 N. Y., 1917-19; laboratory assistant, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 1919-20; and teacher of nature study, Washington, D. C, public 

 schools, April, 1920-July, 1922. 



It is fitting here to express appreciation of the work and loyal 

 support of Miss Blank and Miss Burtis. 



In closing this report, I should like to call to your attention the 



