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both indoors and out. The principal other items of the display 
were: model of the children’s gardens, terrarium, Wardian case, 
material distributed to schools, results of research in genetics, pub- 
lications of the Garden. 
EDITORIAL WorRK AND PUBLICITY 
As usual, I continued to serve on the editorial board of the 
American Journal of Botany, as editor of the Plant Section of 
General Biology for Biological Abstracts, as editor of the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden Contributions, and as associate editor of the 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. As editor of the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden Leaflets I report that eight numbers were 
issued, as follows: 
No. 1. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Exhibit of Methods of 
Plant Propagation, International Flower Show (N. Y. 
City), March 20th-25th, 1933. By Montague Free. 
No. 2-6. Methods of Plant Propagation. By Montague Free. 
Nov. 7-8. Hay Fever—a Study in Applied Botany. By August 
A. Thomen, M.D. 
We continued the method that we have followed for the last ten 
years, of sending news releases ee of Garden events of par- 
ticular interest to the public. For 1933, seventeen releases con- 
taining twenty-nine articles were mailed to the principal metro- 
politan newspapers. In addition, releases dealing particularly with 
the activities of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Garden were sent 
to the press by the Brooklyn Publicity Bureau. <A total of 1,495 
clippings of articles relating to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden were 
received, as against 1,564 last year. 
MuIscELLANEOUS ITEMS 
Personal Activities of Other Members of the Department.— 
During the summer Miss Hester M. Rusk, Instructor, collected 
and preserved a large number of specimens of weeds of the New 
York region, with a view to making a study of them during the 
winter. She also attended Ohio State University during the sec- 
ond term of the summer quarter, particularly for the purpose of 
observing methods of teaching botany. In December she attended 
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