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ment of Education, Massachusetts, concerning our educational 
work; seeds of Sorghum from pedigreed plants supplied to the 
College of the City of New York for use in demonstrating to 
students in Genetics the principles of Mendelian heredity. 
Miscellaneous.—Since May, 1930, we have been caring for 
seedlings of Getah-Jelutong for a commercial firm interested to 
secure growth data concerning them. Getah-Jelutong is Pontianak 
rubber, obtained from several species of Dyera, found wild in the 
Malay peninsula, Dutch East Indies, Sarawak, and Borneo. The 
crude product, a milky juice or latex, contains about 12-14 per 
cent. of a so-called “ rubber” (Geta meaning “ gum”), and about 
50 per cent. of resin. This “ 
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rubber” is used as an inferior sub- 
stitute for gutta percha, or in combination with the purer gum for 
the manufacture of an inferior class of goods. Most of it is used 
in the United States in the manufacture of chewing gum. 
We are also caring for seedlings of Solanum imdicum, a relative 
of the potato, for an investigator connected with the New York 
Homeopathic Medical College and I*lower Hospital, who is con- 
ducting medicinal studies of this plant. 
Cooperation with Relief Agencies 
The Mayor's Commuttee 
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It will be of interest to record here the cooperation of the 
Gar¢ len with regular social service organizations (the Brooklyn 
3ureau of Charities and the Association for Improving the Con- 
dition of the Poor), and with the Emergency Unemployment Re- 
lief Committee (known from the names of its chairmen as “ the 
Prosser Committee’ (in the spring), and “ the Gibson Commit- 
tee”? (in the fall), also as the “Emergency Work and Relief 
Bureau”), and with The Mayor’s Official Committee for the Re- 
lief of the Unemployed and Needy. Employees of various City 
Departments contributed one per cent. or more of their salaries 
during the first six months of 1931, and this money, together with 
other donations from private sources, provided a fund in excess 
of $1,600,000, which was distributed by the Mayor’s Committee 
to provide work and wages for those thrown out of work by the 
economic depression. In recognition of this, the employees of 
