Annual 
Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dee. Totals 
At regular classes ..... 18,000 3,005 2,803 3,852 3,619 65,948 
At visiting classes ..... 100 0 4,709 5,333 5,364 54,119 
At lectures to children . ) 0 3,531 3,875 2,008 28,101 
At lectures to adults ... 0 0 104 0) 0 1,774 
At conservatories ..... 10,726 11,663 = 12,298 9,364 6,767 — 140,011 
Ate orOUndS ae ete 139,838 143,711 127,108 96,987 57,162 1,567,304 
Scuoor Suppry SERVICE 
During the first half of the year, Miss Marion L. Meurlin 
continued, under the direction of Miss Rusk, to supply study 
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material to high schools, junior high schools, and colleges, on the 
same terms as of last year. Miss Meurlin resigned as of June 5. 
Miss Rusk continued the work until early in October, when it was 
taken over by Dr. D. Elizabeth Marcy, of the Department of 
Plant Pathology. 
Miss Rusk reports: “ During the seven years I supplied study 
inaterial free to the ligher schools, the number of requests for 
such material rose from 256 in 1926 to 398 in 1932, an increase 
of about 44 per cent.; and the number of Petri dishes filled with 
sterile agar rose from 1669 in 1926 to 5730 in 1932, an increase 
of about 243 per cent. In the three years I have supervised the 
supplying of study material for a charge, the number of requests 
1as fallen from 398 in 1932 to 265 in 1936, almost as low as in 
1926; and the number of Petri dishes filled has fallen from 5730 
in 1932 to 1098 in 1936—lower than in any other year since 1923, 
and lower by nearly three hundred, than the single month of May, 
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ADULT COURSES 
973 adults registered for our courses in 1936, the largest num- 
ber in the history of the Garden. 
In addition to courses scheduled in the Prospectus, Miss Rusk 
gave, in July, by request, a short course to employees of the New 
York City Department of Health in the identification of hay 
fever plants, particularly ragweed and harmful grasses, and also 
