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December 2. Educational activities of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. Garden Club, Maxwell Training School for 
Teachers. 
Miss Miner: 
January 27. Opportunities offered to children at the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden. United Parents’ League. 
May 6. A spring garden. Women’s Benevolent Society, 
Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. 
By the Registrar and Custodian: 
January 31. Work of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and its 
availability to Scouts. Prospect Y. M. C. A., Troop 237, 
Boy Scouts of America. 
April11. Branching habits of trees. St. Mark’s M. E. Church, 
Troop 24, Boy Scouts of America. 
July 23. Identification of trees. Staten Island Council Camp, 
APPENDIX 4 
REPORT ON BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
PUBLICATIONS, 1931 
American Journal of Botany 
Official Organ of the Botanical Society of America 
Volume XVIII (1931) comprised, as usual, ten monthly issues 
(omitting August and September), with 68 papers, 887 pages, 
64 plates, and 280 text figures (as against 70 papers, 1005 pages, 
63 plates, and 241 text figures in 1930). Two papers were pub- 
lished on the ‘‘author payment” plan. Dr. Arthur Harmount 
Graves continued on the editorial board as representative of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, of Colum- 
bia University, continued as Editor-in-Chief. 
The circulation at the close of the fiscal year (November 30, 
1931) was 1704 as against 1673 one year ago. The annual budget 
