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and the Emergency Employment Committee, Mr. Seward Prosser, 
Chairman. Beginning on March 27 and continuing until Decem- 
ber ro, the Bureau of Charities sent us per diem men for outside 
work, the number varying from one to six. From December 8 
until the close of the year the Emergency Work Bureau of the 
Prosser Committee sent us outside men, the number varying from 
one to seven. ‘These men worked only three days a week. We 
also had from the same source two men and five women for inside 
positions, in the herbarium, library, seed room, and stock room, 
and for general stenographic work. These people worked six 
days a week, and most of them were to continue over into 1931. 
Organization Dinner 
On Vhursday evening, May 22, an organization dinner was held 
in the rotunda of the Laboratory Building. This dinner was the 
third of its kind, and marked the twentieth anniversary of the 
sotanic Garden, the actual work of which began with the appoint- 
ment of the first and present director, effective July 1, 1910. 
IXvery monthly employee was present except three who were out of 
the country or out of town. Also, as guests, President and Mrs. 
Blum, the Chairman of the Governing Committee, Miss Loines : 
the Chairman of the Woman’s Auxiliary, Mrs. Butler; the Presi- 
dent of the Garden Teachers Association of the Botanic Garden, 
Miss Adelaide B. Harrison; the President of the Boys and Girls 
Club, Oswald Elbert, and wives of staff members—sixty-three per- 
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sons in all. A beautifully engrossed scroll, framed, and bearing 
the signatures of 53 members of staff and other employees of the 
Garden, was presented to the Director in recognition of the com- 
pletion of his twenty years of service. No man ever had from his 
associates a more beautiful tribute, nor one more deeply valued and 
appreciated. The speakers included Miss Shaw, curator of ele- 
mentary instruction, who acted as master of ceremonies, President 
Blum, Miss Loines, Mrs. Butler, Mr. Elbert, and Mr. Free who, 
presented the scroll on behalt of the staff and other employees. 
A response was made by the Director. 
This account should not be closed without recording the fact 
that, at its meeting on June 23, 1930, held at the Botanic Garden, 
the Governing Committee presented to the Director a beautiful 
tray with tea and cotfee set of Tiffany silver, with a most gracious 
