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its regular classes with an attendance aggregating 4,056. With 
these facts in mind, it is only due to this department to state that 
85,000 penny packets of seeds were filled and distributed this year, 
a range of three greenhouses cared for, forty lectures and talks 
delivered by the curator of elementary instruction, and a large 
correspondence and the usual routine office work attended to. 
Three industrial exhibits have been placed in schools at the 
request of the schools. This opens up a new arena of usefulness 
which we are quite unable to handle without a new teacher of 
nature study and a man for the greenhouses. This department 
needs, as has been stated more than once before, an auto-bus to 
take classes and materials to and from schools. These are our 
greatest needs without which we must curtail work and diminish 
our power of usefulness. 
Personal Activities 
The Curator of Elementary Instruction edited the National 
Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild Magazine, which appears four 
times a year—January, March, June and September. 
A series of four garden stories for little children, written by 
me, was released by a newspaper syndicate. These appeared four 
times; in the fall, winter, spring and summer of 1919. It is im- 
aheante to give exact dates as the syndicate failed to send dated 
copies to the Garden. 
ELLEN Eppy SHaAw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction. 
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN FOR 1og19 
Dr. C. Sruart GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as librarian 
for the year ending December 31, 1919. 
Owing to the appointment of a library assistant in February, a 
far greater amount of work was accomplished by comparison 
with preceding years. The librarian was thus freed from such 
routine work as could be turned over to an untrained assistant and 
