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relations of the vegetation of Long Island to that wind. Several 

 hundred tests of acidity and alkalinity, according to the new 

 method of Dr. Wherry were made in different parts of Long 

 Island dm-ing the season. Some of the atmometer readings were 

 made by Mrs. Margaret Burdick who has also helped me very 

 efficiently with a considerable amount of statistical tabulation of 

 the Bahama Flora. , 



l\vas appointed by the Ecological Society one of a committee 

 of three to arrange for the publication of Ecology, Its subse- 



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quent publication here at the Garden in cooperation with the So- 

 ciety has, I think, advantages both to the Garden and the So- 

 ciety. I have since served as the Garden's representative on the 

 editorial board of that Journal. 



During the autumn I completed, at the request of P. F. Collier 

 & Son, a popular book on ''Plant Life" to be published as one 

 volume of their '' Book of Science " to be issued in April, 1921. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Norman Taylor, 

 . ■ ■ / Curator of Plants. 



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REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC 



INSTRUCTION FOR 1920 



Although Jhis is the tenth annual report of the Botanic Gar- 

 den, it is only the eighth annual report from the Department of 

 Public Instruction. The appointment of the Curator of Public 

 Instruction took effect September i, 1913. In his first report, ap- 

 pearing in the Record of April, 1913, a tentative outline ap- 

 peared, setting forth the proposed educational activities for the 



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■ Brooklyn Botanic Garden. For the most part this program has 

 been carried out, with some changes, which were largely brought 

 about by the demand from the general public. For example, our 

 regular class-work has increased more than any one other of our 

 activities. From a total attendance of 544 in 191 3, we have at- 

 tained a total attendance in all our classes and lectures of 53,294. 

 We have been able to do less with our loan collections than with 

 any other phase of our work. This is due, not to the fact that 



