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features of the Garden was prepared for distribution to the girls 
on their tour of the Garden. 
Boy Scout Examinations were given on April 21 for merit badges 
in Conservation and Botany. 
Broadcasts.—Fourteen broadcasts on subjects relating to the 
Garden were given over WNYC during the year. 
Bureau of Information.—Many inquiries of various sorts relat- 
ing to plants were answered in person, by letter, or by telephone, 
as usual. 
Research Work.—An account of the year’s work on breeding 
the chestnut will be found on pages 59-65 of this report. 
Respectfully submitted, 
ARTHUR HARMOUNT GRAVES, 
Curator of Public Instruction. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF ELEMENTARY 
INSTRUCTION FOR 1934 
Dr. C. STuartT GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: T hereby present my annual report for the Department of 
Elementary Instruction for 1934. 
I would call to your attention in this report some few points in 
work that are significant in its progress. 
My last annual report was a résumé of twenty years of work 
and it seemed a logical follow-up to make the keynote of our work 
for the visiting classes last spring the educational opportunities 
offered by this Garden. Letters were written to the District 
Superintendents in Brooklyn suggesting that at one of their 
meetings they place this matter before their Sate recom- 
mending that each school send to us at least one class during the 
spring. The regular poster which we send to schools each year 
had this statement on it: “These talks and walks are planned so 
that the boys and girls, the schools, and teachers will be better 
acquainted with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and its contribu- 
tion to education and to happiness in leisure hours.”’ Over 27,000 
students with their teachers visited us in school hours as a re- 
sponse, a response that tells its own story. All through this year 
we have felt results in our work of this renewed interest and 
an 
