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the additional funds for salary being contributed b}^ members of 

 the Garden who have been esi)ecially interested in the work of 

 this department. 



Personal Activities 



I continued to act as Honorary Secretary of the National Plant, 

 Flower and Fruit Guild. 



I served on the ]*^>xecutive Eoard of the Campfire Girls ; the 

 Board of Directors of the Coordinating Council on Nature Ac- 

 tivities ; the Board of Directors of the School Nature League; as 

 one of the Directors of the School Garden Association, and as 

 Secretary-Treasurer of the American Nature Study Society. In 

 the latter capacity, I attended the December meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science at Des Moines, 

 Iowa, and submitted my Secretary's and Treasurer's Reports at 

 that time. I also served on the Program Committee for that 



meeting. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Eij.EN Eddy Shaw, 

 Curator of lUcnicntarv Instruction. 



REPORT OF TITE CURATOR OF PLANTS FOR 1929 



Dr. C. Stuart Gacek. Director. 



Sir: I beg to submit herewith my report for the year 1929. 



Collections 



We received plants of ]\Iicrocycas froni Cuba, so now we have 

 eight of the nine genera of Cycads. lacking only Stangcria. Many 

 of the new plants received were roses. Collections of Scdum and 

 Thymus were increased. Every year we obtain numerous herbace- 

 ous plants, but nearly as many die out. To increase the variety of 

 these plants special conditions such as shade, water, sand, lime- 

 stone, etc., woukl be desiral)le. but this extension is not ]:iossible 

 with present gardening force. 



