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are significant. I gave one of the chief lectures at the annual 
convention of the Childhood I¢ducation Association, Hotel Penn- 
sylvania, New York, on April 29. As a result of this talk on our 
work here, communications have been received from Texas, Colo- 
rado, the Canal Zone, and North Carolina; a special report was 
made to the Bureau of International Education at Geneva, Switzer- 
land. I completed the series of lectures I had been giving once a 
month for six months in East Orange, N. J., to the teachers of 
Grades I through VI. These, too, were based on our work here. 
I served as Chairman of the Judging Committee for Brooklyn 
Youth Week, and have continued as [lonorary Secretary of the 
National Plant and Flower Guild, as Vice-President of the New 
York Chapter of the American Nature Study Society, and as a 
member of the National Committee on Nature-Garden Clubs for 
the School Garden Association. My weekly articles have appeared 
as usual in The Sun (New York) from February through Octo- 
ber. The requests for lectures always exceed the time available 
for such work, but in spite of that fact, an increasing number of 
engagements were filled during the year, involving much time and 
energy and considerable travel. 
Respectfully submitted, 
ELLEN Eppy SHAw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PLANTS FOR 1936 
Dr. C. Stuart Gacer, Director: 
Sir: Herewith I submit my report for the year ending Decem- 
ber 31, 1936, 
LILAcs 
During three weeks in May my time was almost entirely given 
to the study of the species and varieties of lilacs. In this connec- 
tion I visited the Cedar Hill Nursery of the late Mr. Theodore A. 
le, Long Island, several times to make 
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comparisons between their lilacs and ours. In general their flow- 
ering was about three days later than ours. All our lilacs are now 
at least provisionally named. Species in our collection, now seven- 
