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World Service 
But no institution can render the largest service to its community 
by remaining local or parochial in its activities and influence. Just 
as the Botanic Garden owes its existence and maintenance in part 
to municipal support and is thereby obligated to the City, so, also, 
every community is under continued indebtedness to the rest of 
the world, and should contribute in every possible way to the 
public well-being. 
The scientific and educational work of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden has, from the beginning, been developed with these funda- 
mental considerations in mind. Some of the work is unique. In 
several directions we have had to blaze new trails. 
Public response to the opportunities here offered has demon- 
strated beyond any possibility of question a great public need and 
the value of such work. If these results shall stimulate the de- 
velopment of similar work in other centers, its success here will 
be enhanced many fold and will be doubly gratifying to the au- 
thorities of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
OUTLINE OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 
Service to the City 
I. To the schools: 
a. At the Botanic Garden. 
1. Maintenance of labelled collections of living plants, 
in plantations and conservatories to which 
teachers may bring or send pupils for study. 
2. Teaching of school classes in 
Classrooms, 
Laboratories. 
Instructional Greenhouses. 
Conservatories. 
Plantations. 
3. Lectures to pupils and teachers, illustrated by 
Motion pictures on plant ie, 
Stereopticon. 
Living plants. 
Consultation and Conferences with teachers. 
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