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the New York Botanical Garden were visited. In return, we 
were favored with visits from Miss Elizabeth C. Hall, the new 
Librarian of the New York Botanical Garden; Miss Katharine 
tz, Librarian of the Horticultural Society of New York; Miss 
Jessie M. Allen, Librarian of the Bureau of Plant Industry, of the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Miss A. M. 
Avakian, Librarian of the California Forest and Range Experi- 
ment Station, Berkeley, California. 
On May 20th a group of sixty librarians employed in the 
Brooklyn Public Library system visited the library under the 
direction of Miss Hopkins, of the Brooklyn Public Library. Two 
students from the Pratt Institute School of Library Science, Miss 
Pearl Spivak and Miss Elizabeth Mills, spent a day of observation 
and practice on April 19th and May 24th respectively. 
On June 22 the Librarian attended the meeting of the Agri- 
cultural Libraries Section of the American Library Association, 
held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He also attended the Fall 
meeting of the Special Libraries Association, New York Chapter. 
During the year he was a member of the Committee on Libraries 
in National Parks, of the American Library Association. 
The Librarian had the pleasure on February 3 of addressing the 
members of the Woman’s Auxiliary on, ‘‘ Interesting items in the 
library collection.” During the year a committee on the library 
was formed by the Woman’s Auxiliary. This committee’s func- 
tion is essentially that of interesting others in the library’s re- 
sources, its use and its needs. It is hoped that an awakened sense 
of the importance of the library in the scientific, educational, and 
cultural aspect of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden work will be 
instilled and that a measure of added support will result. That 
its resources are of use and value to the Woman's Auxiliary has 
yeen demonstrated by its use of the library’s copy of the first 
edition of John Evelyn’s Acetaria in making its 1937 reprint, and 
by the use of illustrations from the collection of old Herbals in 
designing the cover of the Herb Luncheon invitation. The 
library’s books on flower arrangement have been freely used in 
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connection with courses sponsored by the Woman’s Auxiliary. 
INTERLIBRARY LOANS 
The chart showing the extent of the lending of books to other 
libraries by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Library was brought up 
