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journal closed the fiscal year with a cash balance of $640.70 and 

 assets over liabilities of $254.80, exclusive of the value of back 

 sets and volumes on hand. 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record 



Volume XVni (1929) of the Record comprised 307 l)ages, as 

 against 186 pages last year. P)eginning with the January. 1929, 

 number, the Record was issued bi-monthly. The six issues were 

 as follows : January, Delectus Scmiiium Brooklyn, 1^28 ; March, 

 Riglitcentli Animal Report, J()28 ; J\Tay, Gardens zvithhi a Garden 

 — /I General Guide to the Grounds of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. Guide No. 2; July, Rublic Rducation at the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden; September, Prospectus, ig2C)-^o; November, The 

 Story of Our Metatc — A CJironiclc of Corn. Guide No. 5. 



Leaflets 



Two double numbers (1-3, April 3 and 4-5, May 15) and one 

 ([uadruple number (8-12, November 27) were issued. The cir- 

 culation was i860, as of December, 1929. No. 1-3 wms "A 

 selected list of publications on gardening and wild flowers," by 

 Miss Ray Simpson, librarian of the Ciarden from 1916 to 1929. 



Contributions and Mouoirs 

 No numbers were issued in 1929. 



Research Published 



The total number of research i^apers published l)y the Ciarden 

 in 1929 was 127, occuj^ying 2,088 pages. 



Bibliographies 



Special attention is called to two bliographies published during 

 the year, as follows : 



1. A selected list of publications on gardening and i^'ild flozvcrs. 

 By Miss Ray Sim])S()n, lil)rarian of the Garden from September 

 18, 1916 to September i, 1929. This constituted No. 1-3 of the 

 Leaflets, noted above. 



2. List of books on gardening and botanical nature study. By 



