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at Spring and Fall Inspections of the Garden until prevented by 
the infirmities of age (he was 88), and a generous contributor to 
the private funds budget for a quarter of a century. 
_ Mr. Gates D. fahnestock, a member of the Board of Trustees 
since June, 1904, and a member of the Botanic Garden Governing 
Committee of the Board since 1910 (the year in which the Garden 
was established), died at the Peck Memorial Hospital, Brooklyn, 
November 5, 1936, aged 83 years and seven months. He was born 
at Gettysburg, Pa., April 5, 1853, and as a small boy witnessed the 
battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Fahnestock served on several com- 
mittees of the Board, and acted as treasurer from 1904 to 1911, 
giving most generously of his time and ability to all Departments 
of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences—Iducation, Mu- 
seums, and Botanic Garden. 
Dr. George M. Reed, Curator of Plant Pathology, was awarded 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at the annual Com- 
mencement of his alma mater, Geneva College, Beaver, Pennsyl- 
vama, in June. 
Mr. . ‘uham FE. Jordan entered upon his duties as librarian 
March 16, 1936. Since the retirement of Mr. Calvin W. Foss, on 
sick leave from 1934 to 1935, Mrs. Emilie Perpall Chichester acted 
as library-assistant-in-charge. Mur. Jordan received the degree of 
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B.S. from Cornell University in 1927, majoring in entomology and 
with minors in various branches of botany. This was followed 
by a semester of graduate study in the Yale Forestry School. He 
has had practical field work in the U. S. Forest Service in Montana 
and in the Japanese beetle laboratory in New Jersey; in Lafayette 
(now Acadia) National Park, Mt. Desert Island; also several 
months in a commercial greenhouse, and several months in a com- 
mercial nursery. Mr. Jordan graduated from Pratt Institute 
School of Library Science with the class of 1933. He acted as 
assistant in the New York Public Library, Science and Tee shnology 
Division (1927-1928), and in the Library of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. (1934-1936 ) 
Miss Margaret M. Dorward, Assistant Curator of Elementary 
Instruction since January 1, 1933, resumed her duties October 1, 
1936, after a year’s leave of absence for the purpose of study at 
the Swanley Horticultural College, Swanley, Kent, england. 
