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botany—one an Assistant in Botany at Columbia University; one 
an Assistant in the Research Department of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden; one completing a research project for his Ph.D. at 
Harvard University; one engaged in research work for the Port 
of New York Authority with the Federal and State Departments 
of Agriculture and Commerce. Among college students, we have 
one in landscape design at Syracuse University; one in the Col- 
lege of Agriculture at Cornell University—and I would like to 
mention here that in his case the practical work he had done in his 
student days at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was accepted at 
Cornell University as practical work toward his degree. Still 
another student is working in agricultural chemistry at Long 
Island University. At St. Francis College is a young man pre- 
paring to be a teacher of botany. We have had one young 
woman who has shown outstanding ability in the field and has 
recently received a scholarship from the Farm and Garden As- 
sociation for Amherst Agricultural College. Of three young 
women who started to prepare in botany to enter a career of 
education, one is married, and two have been obliged to teach other 
subjects because of the demands of the times. Most of these stu- 
dents are recipients of the Alfred T. White Scholarship, provided 
for by the late Alfred T. White to encourage young people in the 
study of botany. There have been fourteen of these young 
people, and out of the fourteen, nine are in the field of botany or 
in an allied field. Six boys and girls at present registered in our 
Saturday classes are planning to enter the field of botany. 
The long period of attendance of some of our boys and girls 
at the Garden is noteworthy. I have in mind a lad who came here 
at five, continued with us until he graduated from New York Unt- 
versity, and still, as a senior in the Dental College of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, comes to see us in his holidays. We have 
this year two seniors at Princeton University, one of whom came 
to us when he was eight years old and continued until he left for 
college. It is no unusual thing for us to have boys and girls who 
register almost in babyhood and continue to come until they reach 
college age. One of the Alfred T. White Scholarship recipients, 
a graduate of St. Joseph’s College and now a Laboratory In- 
structor, came at the same early age, stayed with us through her 
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