SUMMARY FOR 1926 
1. Total attendance for the year, over 514,000. 
2. Educational contact with over 400,000 children and adults. 
3. Over 34,000 living plants placed in classrooms of city 
schools. 
4. Over 550,000 packets of seeds distributed to children in 
Brooklyn and other boroughs for planting in school and home 
gardens. 
5. Over 1800 packets of seeds of trees and shrubs sent in ex- 
change to foreign botanic gardens. 
6. Conservation of Native Wild Flowers promoted in various 
ways in cooperation with other organizations. 
7. Botanical research continued in plant pathology, genetics, 
plant breeding, forest pathology, ecology, and plant geography. 
. Over 1800 pages of research have been published during the 
year in four journals that have a world-wide circulation. 
g. Bureau of Information has been made use of by the public 
to our capacity to respond. 
10. Current issues of 847 periodicals on plant life have been 
received in the library. 
11. Of a total budget of over $148,000 the Botanic Garden pro- 
vided over $66,000 or over 43 per cent. 
12. Members enjoy special privileges. See pages iv and v for 
information concerning membership. 
