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mates for a small lean-to greenhouse at the end of our range to 
be used as a propagating place, but these were too high to be 
considered, and hence the project has been set aside until a 
future time. 
Outside Activities—Many calls have come to us for outside 
help in connection with schools and other organizations. Among 
the important educational speeches of the year which I made was 
a talk on the Schoolmen’s Week Program at the University of 
Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. About three hundred teachers 
representing Eastern Pennsylvania attended this. Another talk 
was given before the Woman’s College Club of York County, at 
York, Pennsylvania. During the spring I was called to a garden 
conference of the Federated Garden Clubs of the State of North 
Carolina to assist in a Junior Gardening project; in the fall I did 
a similar piece of work for the Garden Clubs of South Carolina 
and New Jersey. From June 17 through June 20 Miss Ham- 
mond conducted the nature work in a Camp Training Course for 
Counsellors and Directors given at Cold Spring, N. Y., under 
the auspices of the United Neighborhood Houses of New York 
City and the Children’s Welfare Association. In August Miss 
Carroll attended, as instructor, a conference conducted by the 
State Department of Education at Blue Ridge Graduate College, 
Blue Ridge, N. C. Her course demonstrated the value of nature 
through art expression, and her work was based upon the work 
we do with children here at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
We have had a number of visitors from afield. I would men- 
tion particularly representatives of the Botanic Garden at Mon- 
treal, who came for assistance in planning their educational work 
for the future. 
Preparation and Distribution of Material.—Besides the regular 
classwork with teachers and visiting classes, Miss Hammond has 
collected, pressed, mounted, and labelled 1206 specimens of 74 
different kinds of flowering plants, having collected and done all 
the other work herself. [ would call to your attention the fact 
that this Department has not only carried a heavy teaching 
schedule with visiting classes and adult classes, but packed over 
1,000,000 packets of seed and sold over 915,000 of the same; 
managed three greenhouses (and distributed from these 40,000 
plants); maintained the children’s garden; distributed nature 
