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The following items reflect, in part, the activities and progress 
of the year 1930. 
The Garden and the Public 
It is gratifying each year to witness the extent to which the 
general public visit the garden as one would visit a museum, for 
study as well as recreation and enjoyment. One can rarely walk 
through the grounds without seeing visitors reading and copying 
labels, studying plants, and learning their names. An increasing 
number of visitors come to the Information Desk in the Laboratory 
3uilding for printed matter, or to ask for information. Inquiries 
by mail and telephone have fully doubled in number during the 
past ten years. 
3y means of frequent press releases sent out by our Feature 
News Service the public is kept well informed concerning the 
Garden. During 1930 about 750 clippings of news items were 
received. The series of 51 weekly articles on plant life and garden- 
ing contributed to the New York Sun during the year, as noted 
in the appended report of the curator of elementary instruction, 
have resulted in the establishment of a garden page in that paper. 
The Garden and the Schools 
As noted in the appended report of the curator of public in- 
struction, the Botanic Garden during the past year, has served, 
in one way or another, every High School in Greater New York, 
save one (the High School of Commerce, Manhattan) which has 
no department of biology. This includes 24 schools and annexes 
in Brooklyn, 14 in Manhattan, 6 in the Bronx, 10 in Queens, and 
2 in Richmond (Staten Island), a total of 57 schools. In each 
case this service has included the supply of living or preserved 
study material. 
In a similar manner we have supplied six colleges and univer- 
sities and one Junior college in Greater New York, and one in New 
Jersey ; also the eleven private and parochial schools of high school 
grade and the Maxwell Training School (and Annex) in Brooklyn, 
and the New York Training School for Teachers in Manhattan. 
In numerous ways we have also served 82 per cent. of the Pub- 
lic Schools (grades below the High School) in 1930, and 98 per 
