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regular work continued without a break. The Acting Assistant 
Curator, Mrs. Kathryn Clark Bartlett, resigned as of March 31. 
Miss Zelda J. Sargent resigned on April 30; Mrs. Lucile MacColl 
on July 15, and Miss Elizabeth Marcy on August 31. 
Miss Margaret M. Dorward was appointed on March 17. Miss 
Dorothy Jenkins was appointed temporarily from April 1 to July 
15, and then permanently from that time on. Miss Frances M. 
Miner came on September 1. 
One of our own students, Miss Rosemary Kennelly, carried on 
the work of the Children’s Garden at the Brooklyn Home for 
Consumptives. 
I was asked to go to Cleveland, Ohio, to set in motion plans for 
a Garden Center for Cleveland. This was successful, and one of 
the few Garden Centers in the world is fairly launched in that 
city. The work of the Garden Center is to assist people in their 
plans for home gardens. 
I continued to serve as Honorary Secretary of the National 
Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild. 
My term of office as Secretary-Treasurer of the American 
Nature Study Society ended with the December meeting of the 
Society in Cleveland. 
During 1930 the Curator wrote a weekly article for the New 
York Sun. Because of the popularity of those articles during 
1929, the Sun started a Garden Page which is published every 
Saturday. The School Nature Study Union of England asked 
for an article on our work to appear in their own official organ. 
This article was published in July. An educational article on 
“The Value of Nature Study in the Life of a Child ” was written 
for the Delineator in May, an article which has been used by the 
public schools in their work. An article on “ Window Boxes ” 
published in 1929 in Your Home is to be re-published in England 
by the Amalgamated Press. This was requested by the Press in 
London and came through no effort on the part of the Your Home 
Company nor the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
I would like to bring to your attention the following needs in 
the Department. First, a seed-filling machine. Considered as a 
whole, the seed work takes nearly one-half year of time of one 
assistant. This time should be put into strictly educational work. 
