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REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 
FOR 1921 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, Direcror. 
Sir: I beg to submit herewith my report for the year ending 
December 31, 1921. 
My appointment as Curator of Public Instruction took effect 
September 1,1921, so that my own personal activities cover a period 
of only four months; but, in addition, I have incorporated in what 
follows the principal features of the work of this curatorship, car- 
ried on previous to my incumbency by the Curator of Elementary 
Instruction. 
Public Lectures 
This vear public lectures were given at the Garden as follows: 
1. March 19.—The Missouri Botanical Garden. Mr. G. H. 
Pring, Horticulturist, Missouri Botanical Garden. 
2. April 8—The Flower Garden: Its Plan and Arrangement. 
Miss Grace Tabor, Author, Editor, and Landscape Architect, New 
York City. 
3. April 15.—The Meaning of a Flower. Samuel C. Schmucker, 
Professor of Biological Sciences, State Normal School, West 
Chester, Pa. 
4. April 22—Flower Arrangement. Mr. B. F. Letson, Boston, 
_ Mass. 
| 3, April 29-—Common Garden Flowers: How They May Be 
Improved. Dr. Orland E. White, Curator of Plant Breeding, 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
The attendance at these lectures was larger than the year before. 
It is my feeling that this branch of the Garden’s activities should be 
encouraged, especially since instruction of the people along botani- 
cal lines was one of the avowed intents and purposes of the 
founders of this institution. IJ therefore recommend the creation 
of a suitable fund to be devoted solely to this work. 


Loan Lectures 
We have prepared four sets of lantern slides to be lent to the 
public schools on request, on the following subjects: 
