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Statistics of Public Educational Activities, 1924 



Conferences 



Number of teachers 1,151 



Number of pupils involved 58,035 



Loan Lectures {Lantern slides, etc.) 



Number of teachers 22 



Number of pupils attending 5,858 



Study Material Supplied 



Number of schools and annexes 

 High 



In Brooklyn (Total No. 13) 10 



Outside of Brooklyn 9 



Junior High Schools (Total No. 13) 12 



Colleges and Universities 3 



Training Schools for Teachers i 



Elementary 206 



Private Schools 9 



Number of teachers -1,997 



Number of pupils instructed 161,450 



Exhibits provided 



Number of exhibits 17 



Viewed by 14,609 



Living plants placed in school rooms 



Number of schools 722 



Number of plants 8,502 



Agar {sterilized) for class use 



Petri dishes 1,180 



Flasks 13 



Seed Packets for children 



Schools 151 



Teachers 4,32 1 



Pupils 129,349 



Packets 204,283 



Investigations 



Investigations at the Garden during 1924 ha\'e been along the 

 same general lines as last year — plant pathology (with special 

 reference to disease resistance), forest pathology, genetics and 

 plant breeding, ecology (with special reference to the vegetation 

 of Long Island), and systematic botany. 



Some of the results of this work have been embodied in nine 

 scientific papers published by members of staff during the year, 

 and manuscript is now in hand for a Afeuwir on the vegetation of 



