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Tuesday, October 3, at 3 pm. After the regular business session 
the members inspected the buildings and plantations under the 
guidance of Dr. Gundersen. 
The first fall meeting of the Department of Botany of the De- 
partment of Education of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences, Dr. George C. Wood, President, was held in the Labo- 
ratory building of the Botanic Garden on Tuesday evening, Octo- 
ber 10. The program was a lecture by Dr. O. E. White, of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden staff, on “Economic Plants of the 
Bolivian Indians.” The formal session was followed by a social 
hour with refreshments 

The Inventory of seeds and plants imported by the Office of 
Seed and Plant Introduction (U. S. Department of Agriculture), 
No. 57 (May 20, 1922), contains the statement that “there are 
ten times as many undiscovered useful plants remaining in the 
Tropics today as are to be found in the colder regions of the globe.” 
The writer also reminds us that “the plants which grow in the 
colder regions are those which have, by slow adaptation to the 
cold, crept out of the Tropics.” 
On October 5, at noon, Dr. A. H. Graves gave an illustrated 
talk on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden before the Federal Board 
students at the Central Branch of the Y. M. C. A., at 153 East 
86th Street, Manhattan. 
The Junior class of the Library School of the New York Public 
Library, comprising about 33 students, made its fourth annual 
visit to the Botanic Garden library on the afternoon of October 6, 
1922. The class was accompanied by Miss Edith W. Tiemann. 
The Botanic Garden librarian, Miss Simpson, gave a talk on the 
organization and work of the library, and Director Gager spoke on 
the educational work of a botanic garden and its articulation with 
the Brooklyn Public Library and its branches. Tea was served in 
the exhibit room. 
The ninth annual Children’s Garden Exhibit for the boys and 
girls of the Borough of Brooklyn was held on September 29 and 
_ 30. The exhibit showed several new and interesting features this 
year. First among these was the number of small exhibits from 
individual schools. In years past a number of the schools have 
