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TABLE III 
Vear | Requests for Material Petri Dishes Filled Number of Pupils 
of Various Sorts Reached 
1922 48 358 5.398 
1923 IIo 664 24,348 
1924 146 1,180 161,450 
I925.... 324 T7IG2 162,585 
Further development of our sets of loan slides for schools has 
come to a standstill on account of the lack of funds. When once 
obtained these would of course become a permanent part of the 
equipment, and would be of immense value as illustrative 
material for the school children. 
Personal Class Work 
In 1925 a new course in botany entitled ‘‘The Life of Plants” 
was announced. ‘This course runs through the school year and is 
designed for any who wish to obtain a working knowledge of plant 
life. The courses on ‘‘The Trees and Shrubs of Greater New 
York” were given as usual in the spring and fall, 70 people 
registering for the Spring Course and 40 for the Fall Course. 
News Releases 
As during the past four years, we have continued sending 
weekly accounts of activities of the Garden to thirty-eight 
periodicals, including various metropolitan dailies in New York 
and elsewhere, several Long Island papers, and other publications. 
Recently the Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.), the oldest 
newspaper in the United States, has asked to have our weekly 
press releases. An editorial on work of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden was published in this paper in December. Our news 
items are copied by papers throughout the country, recently 
articles relating to the Garden appearing for instance in the 
Herald-Examiner, Chicago, Ill., in the Los Angeles Times, and in 
the Province, Vancouver, B. C. During 1925, 105 typewritten 
pages of press releases were issued, containing 84 articles. 
Editorial Work and Other Activities 
As usual, I have continued to serve on the Editorial Board of 
the American Journal of Botany, as well as acting as Assistant 
