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Exhibits.—Specimens of drug plants were lent in May to Mr. 
J. Bik, druggist at Coney Island, for an exhibit in his store 
window held in connection with a special project in pharma- 
cognosy in the Biology classes of Abraham Lincoln High School.— 
Specimens were also furnished for an exhibit at the Queens 
County Medical Society during ‘‘Children’s Health Week”’ 
ginning May 2. 
Bird Lists.—The Brooklyn Bird Club, through Mr. Bernard P. 
Brennan, has continued to send us lists of birds seen at the 
Garden, and these lists have been posted on our bulletin boards 
each week in the spring and autumn—more irregularly through 
the winter and summer months. 
Nominating Committees In December, I served on the nomi- 
nating committees of the American Fern Society and of the 
Torrey Botanical Club to prepare a list of persons to be voted 
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on as officers of these organizations for the ensuing year. 
Chestnut Research.—Part of June and September, and all of 
July and August, I spent at our chestnut plantations at Hamden, 
Conn., where we are raising new types of trees to replace the 
now practically defunct American chestnut. A report of this 
work will be found on pp. 44-55. 
Cooperation with the Department of Education..-On March 3, 
the Department of Botany of the Department of Education, 
Brooklyn Institute, met at the Laboratory Building of the Gar- 
den. Mr. Charles Ericson spoke on ‘‘Ferns and Fern Allies.” 
The Department held its annual social meeting at the Garden, 
as usual, on October 19. 
Bureau of Information. Answering questions about plants by 
telephone or letter, or as a result of personal interviews, giving 
advice on courses, books, programs of study, sometimes personal 
visits to nearby properties, etc., consume an amount of time 
much disproportionate to the emphasis apparently indicated by 
this brief note. 
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NEEDS 
In the annual reports I have submitted since I reported for 
duty at the Garden in September, 1921, the question of needs 
has rarely been mentioned up to the present, the seventeenth 
report. A survey of the reports through these years shows how 
our work has increased from year to year, an inevitable result of 
