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Mr. Edwin Gould, a Patron and member of the Botanic Garden 
Governing Committee, 1926-1929, died suddenly on July 12, 1933, 
at his estate on Cove Road, near Oyster Bay, Long Island, at the 
age of 67 years. In 1926 Mr. Gould contributed $25,000 to the 
Citizens Endowment Fund then being raised. 
Mr. Calvin W. Foss, librarian, was absent throughout the year 
on sick leave. During his absence Mrs. [emilie Perpall Chichester 
has been Library Assistant in Charge. 
On September 1, 1933, Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, curator of Ele- 
mentary Instruction, completed twenty years of service at the 
Garden, as follows: Instructor, September 1, 1913—December 31, 
1914; Assistant Curator, Public Instruction, January 1-December 
31, 1915; Curator of Elementary Instruction, January 1, 1916-. 
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At a meeting of the Botanic Garc 
June 22, the members present expressed warm appreciation of 
Miss Shaw’s services to the Garden and, through the Garden, to 
3orough of Brooklyn during these twenty years. A resolu- 
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tion was unanimously passed requesting the director so to notify 
Miss Shaw, and to convey to her an expression of the high regard 
and affection of the Committee. 
On May 22, the Garden Teachers Association of the Botanic 
Garden gave a dinner in honor of Miss Shaw, on November 12 
a tea for the Botanic Garden personnel and officials was given at 
the home of the Director, and on December 15 a reception and tea 
was given in Miss Shaw’s honor at the home of the chairman of 
the Governing Committee, Miss Loines. 
Beginning September 7, Miss Julia EX. Best, A.B., Barnard Col- 
lege 1931, M.A., Columbia University 1933, accepted appoint- 
ment as School Service Assistant in the Department of Public In- 
struction, to assist in the supply of study material to high schools 
andcolleresen( (tapos) 
Miss Mary Dorward, a graduate of the Pratt Institute Sc 
of Library Science, 1933, very generously contributed her services 
without compensation as library assistant from October 2 until the 
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end of the year. 
Mr. Gerald Sherow gave his services gratis in the Propagating 
Department for a total of twenty-two days between the following 
dates: December 18, 1933—January 25, 1934. 
