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Brooklyn. As stated above, the increase over 1933 was 36,560. 
The largest monthly attendance was 221,780 in May, and the 
smallest 46,663 in February. The largest weekend attendance 
was 23,071 on April 7-9. These figures are less than the maxi- 
mum weekend attendance in 1933, owing chiefly, no doubt, to the 
fact that the Eastern Parkway gate was out of commission most 
of the year on account of grading operations on the North Addition. 
Attendance from Out of Town.—Visits to the Garden by Garden 
Clubs and other organizations from other cities is now a common- 
place, but special trips to Brooklyn from a distance by individuals 
for the express purpose of visiting the Garden rarely come to our 
notice. It wasa real pleasure to receive last June a letter from a 
correspondent in California, not known personally, and formerly 
residing in Rochester, N. Y., reading as follows: ‘In other days 
my husband and I often took a night train for New York for one 
day in the Botanic Garden, especially in spring . . . so I thank 
you for inspiration that you are unconsciously giving to an 
unknown person.”’ 
Attraction of Cherry Trees.—One of the New York daily papers 
of May 15 carried an interview with the Captain in charge of the 
Telegraph Bureau of the Police Department in Brooklyn. The 
Captain is quoted as follows: “. . . right now we are receiving 
hundreds of calls from all parts of Manhattan and the Bronx 
asking directions to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where the 
Japanese cherry trees are now in blossom.”’ 
Bureau of Public Information.—Inquiries from the general 
public, outside the regular Garden membership, for information 
on all aspects of plant life and gardening, continue to be received 
in increasing number from individuals and institutions, from 
many states from coast to coast, and from many foreign countries. 
PUBLIC EDUCATION 
In his Presidential Address before the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science in 1933 Sir Frederick Gowland 
Hopkins said: ‘‘It is, however, because of its extreme importance 
for social progress that public ignorance of biology is especially 
to be regretted.” 
This is true with reference to the great liberalizing generaliza- 
