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73rd United States Congress, April 19, 1934, Congressman Kent 
E. Keller, Chairman of the House Committee on the Library, 
introduced House Joint Resolution 327, authorizing the ap- 
pointment of a ‘Planning Committee in connection with the 
United States Botanic Garden, and for other purposes.’”’ Under 
the terms of this resolution twenty citizens, including the Director 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, were named as members of this 
Committee. Under date of July 30, 1934, Congressman Frederic 
A. Delano, of New York, nominated in the Resolution as Chair- 
man of this Committee, addressed a communication ‘To the 
Members of the Planning Committee of the United States Botanic 
Garden.”’ This communication announced the naming of the 
following subcommittees: 
Location and Size: Chairman, Hon. Frederick A. Delano, M.C. 
Scope and Function: Chairman, Mr. B. Y. Morrison, Head of 
the Division of Foreign Plant Introduction, Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Department of Agriculture. 
Administration and Correlation: Chairman, Prof. H. H. Bartlett, 
Director of the Botanical Garden and Arboretum, University of 
Michigan. 
Education and Public Relations: Chairman, Dr. C. Stuart 
Gager, Director, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Legislation: Chairman, Hon. Kent E. Keller, M.C. 
Mr. John C. Bradley, Secretary to Congressman Keller, will 
serve as Vice Chairman of the Committee in the preparation of 
the report, in order to compile and edit the report which will be 
made up for deliberation by Congress. 
American Rock . Free, the first president 
of this new organization, records its first annual meeting at the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden in his report (p. 102). 
National Rose Garden.—Mr. Free reports (p. 102) his trip to 
Washington to confer as member of a committee on the project 
to establish a National Rose Garden in the District of Columbia, 
possibly under the auspices of the American Rose Society. 
International Flower Show.—An account of our four exhibits at 
the 1934 show, Grand Central Palace, is given by the horti- 
culturist on page 99. Asa result of these exhibits, we received 40 
clippings of news items and editorial mention in newspapers and 
