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APPENDIX 4 
TALKS, PUBLIC LECTURES, ADDRESSES, AND 
PAPERS GIVEN BY MEMBERS OF STAFF 
DURING 1926 
By the Director of the Garden: 
April 15. Address of Welcome, to The Contemporary Club 
and Brooklyn Art League. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
April 23. The Conservation of Wild Flowers. Assembly of 
3ay Ridge High School, Brooklyn, 
April 27. Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. News- 
paper Men’s Luncheon, Hamilton Club. 
May 1. The Importance of Trees. Brooklyn Children’s Mu- 
seum. Exercises at the planting of two copper beeches in 
memory of Miss Margaret Wilson Carmichael and Miss 
Marguerite Mayer. 
May t. New York's Biggest Flower Garden. (The Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden.) Broadcast Talk, Station WNYC. 
May 3. Evolution Now and Then. (The Recent Evolution 
Controversy: an Historical Comparison.) Wiaunter’s Night 
Club, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
June 4. What ts a botanic garden? Young People’s League 
Protestant Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush. 
November 13. Conservation work of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. New York Bird and Tree Club, Hotel Roosevelt, 
New York City. 
By the Curator of Elementary Instruction: 
January 7. Children’s Work at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
St. Bartholomew’s Community House. 
April 26. Little gardens. P. 5S. No. 40, Queens. 
May 4. Value of nature study. Talk to entering class, Max- 
well Training School for Teachers. 
May 18. The work of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Moth- 
ers’ Club, P. S. No. 89. 
May 20. Spring and little gardens, Birch Wathen School, 
New York. 
