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The work in our three greenhouses has more than doubled in the 
last two years. These two things taken together represent an 
re demand upon us for 
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enormous amount of mechanical detail. T 
assistance in starting Nature Rooms and in helping schools is so 
great that the Curator feels the time of assistants would far better 
go to such work than to the mechanics of the seedroom and too 
much detail in the greenhouses. Perhaps one concrete example 
would open up a clearer understanding of this situation. When 
our teachers’ beginners’ class in greenhouse work meets, it takes 
the time of one person the entire day to set up the greenhouses for 
the class, to wrap up plants, and be ready for the proper running 
of the class. An extra assistant who could do more of the 
mechanics of the job and free the educational assistants would be 
a step forward. 
Again I would like to put on record the need of a bus for 
visiting classes and a car for the use of all departments where the 
distribution of material and the transporting of individuals 1s 
concerned, 
Respectfully submitted, 
ELLEN Eppy Sitaw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction, 
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN FOR 1930 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: I submit herewith the report on the library for the year 
1930. 
Accessions 
During the year, there were added to the book collection 1,067 
volumes and 844 pamphlets, making a total on December 31 of 
15,851 volumes and 11,952 pamphlets, or a grand total of 27,803. 
More than 100 volumes were received as gifts from authors, 
members of the Garden staff, scientific associations, institutions, 
and others who are interested in the work of the Garden. Special 
acknowledgment should be made to Mr. Henry S. Adams, Brook- 
lyn, who presented several expensive volumes on gardens; to the 
Brooklyn Museum Library for a collection of interesting out of 
