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Institute of Arts and Sciences, along the line begun in 1934, the 
following programs were held on Wednesday evenings at the 
Garden : 
February 5. Fungi: friends or foes of man. Miss Grace A. 
Petersen: 
March 4. Breeding the chestnut tree. Arthur Harmount 
Graves. 
April 1.) Wild flowers of Long Island. Mrs. Clayton A. 
Peters. 
The Annual Social Meeting of the Department of Botany was 
held at the Garden, as usual, on Tuesday evening, October 13. 
Dr. C. Stuart Gager spoke on “ Some treasures from the Brooklyn 
3otanic Garden Library.” 
Jewish Hospital—For three weeks in September Miss Rusk 
cooperated with the Jewish Hospital ina study of the distribution 
of pollen of hay fever plants, exposing agar-coated slides at a 
high point i the Japanese Garden. 
Radio Garden Club Field Day—On June 10 a Field Day of 
the Radio Garden Club was held at the Garden. Brief talks were 
given by members of the Extension Service of the New Jersey 
Agricultural Experiment Station and by members of the Garden 
Staff. Then the assembled guests were conducted on a tour of 
inspection of the grounds. 
Yale University School of Forestry—In February we sent to 
Professor S. J. Record of the School of Forestry, Yale Uni- 
versity, wood specimens of rare members of the Witch Hazel 
Family. These were to be used by a graduate student, Mr. Y. 
Tang, of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peiping, China, 
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Mr. Tang is making an anatomical study of the Hamamelidaceae 
(Witch Hazel Family). 
Bird Lovers Club of Brooklyn —Through Mr. Bernard P. 
srennan of the Bird Lovers Club of Brooklyn, we received lists 
of birds seen each week on the grounds of the Garden. Beginning 
with the week of April 12, these lists were posted each week on 
the outdoor bulletin boards of the Garden, duly accrediting the 
3ird Lovers Club; and they were continued throughout the m1- 
gratory season until June, when a list of the summer residents 
was posted. As we said in a news release, * Thousands of our 
