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Better Homes and Gardens. Vhis Junior Garden conference is 
recorded in the appended report of the Curator of [Elementary 
Instruction, 
As for several years past, the Garden is obligated to Mr. Wil- 
ham T. Hunter, of our Governing Committee, for the loan of the 
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motor truck of his firm, A. Schroeder's Son, to transport our 
exhibit to and from the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Once 
again, also, Mr. Hunter served as Acting Chairman of the Gov- 
erming Committee during the winter absence of Miss Loines in 
Ilorida. 
Miscellaneous —The Garden has cooperated in many ways, as 
usual, with various other organizations, quite too numerous for 
complete mention here, The Director of the Garden has continued 
for the ninth year as a member of the Board of the Horticultural 
society of New York; for the sixteenth year as a member and the 
fifth year as Chairman of the Committee on Plant Quarantines of 
the Merchants Association of New York. He has also served as 
President of the Botanical Society of America for the year 1936. 
lturther details of cooperation are given in the appended depart- 
mental reports. 
PisRSON NEL. 
Mr. William A. Putnam, one of the original members of the 
Botanic Garden Governing Committee of our trustees (since 
1910), died at his home in Brooklyn on February 29, 1936. Mr. 
Putnam was one of the few remaining members of the group of 
public spirited citizens who were active in promoting the educa- 
tional and cultural welfare of Brooklyn when it was an independent 
city, and who have continued this interest since Brooklyn became 
one of the five boroughs of Greater New York. This change in 
the municipal status, combined with the growing tendency to trans- 
fer permanent residence, and with it a portion at least of civic 
interest, to the suburbs, while it could not add to our sense of loss, 
makes the passing of these residents of the old “ City”? of Brook- 
lyn more serious than nught otherwise be the case. Mr. Putnam 
was appointed to the Botanic Garden Governing Committee by Mr. 
Alfred TV. White. He was a life member of the Brooklyn In- 
eH 
stitute since 1901, and became a trustee in 1914. He was one o 
the most regular attendants at Governing Committee meetings and 
