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Newspaper Publicity —The sending of periodic news releases to 
about 25 newspapers and 5 magazines concerning floral displays, 
educational work and related matters has continued as in past years 
by Dr. Graves as a regular activity of the Department of Public 
Iducation. These have been supplemented by releases concerning 
social and other Botanic Garden matters by the Brooklyn Publicity 
Bureau. In addition, an unusual number of news items have ap- 
peared without initiative on the part of the Garden. The total 
number of clippings received was 1,495, covering a wide geo- 
eraphic range. The number of editorial comments on various 
aspects of our work continues to increase. 
School Service 
As usual, our service to local schools during 1933 has comprised 
1e instruction of school classes brought to the Garden by their 
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teachers, the giving of talks and addresses at the schools, confer- 
ences with teachers concerning their work, and the supply of study 
material. Up to the close of the school year in June, 1933, study 
material had been supplied without charge. The amount requested 
steadily increased until, in 1932, more than 6,000 teacher-requests 
were met with material for the instruction of nearly 260,000 
pupils. Most of this was living plant material, which had to be 
either collected or raised in the greenhouse, and culture medium 
(agar) for the study of germ life. 
Our Agreement with the City of New York provides that, “ the 
party of the second part [the Botanic Garden] shall, so far as any 
surplus resources will permit, furnish plants or botanic material 
for use in the teaching of botany in the public schools of The City 
of New York, and in case the supply of plants or materials for 
instruction is not exhausted by the demands of the public schools 
of the City, such plants and botanic materials may, at the discre- 
tion of the party of the second part, be furnished to other educa- 
tional institutions within said City.” 
For a number of years past the amount of material supplied has 
been greatly in excess of incidental surplus. In the report for 
1932 we noted that for the personnel alone required for this serv- 
ice 40 per cent. of the expense was provided from the private 
funds of the Garden. All of the expense for the material itself 
