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an article on Botany for the year 1934 for the annual revision 
service of Collier's National Encyclopedia. I continued as editor 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Leaflets, and report that six 
numbers were issued during 1935. During the year, thirty-three 
news releases, containing thirty-six articles relating to Garden 
events, were prepared and sent out to the principal metropolitan 
newspapers. A total of 1,178 press clippings were received, as 
against 1,472 during 1934. 
EXHIBITS 
At the Commemoration Exercises ——F¥or the celebration of the 
25th anniversary of the founding of the Garden, May 13-16, an 
exhibit was prepared, under the title of “Making a new chestnut 
tree.” Photographs of the plantation at Hamden, Connecticut, 
of hybrids, and of the Japanese trees on Long Island used as the 
Japanese parents of our original hybrids were displayed, as well 
as photos of former vigorous American trees, and a diagram ex- 
plaining the development of young, apparently healthy shoots from 
the base of dead trunks; also, potted specimens of exotic species 
of chestnuts and a young tree of American chestnut nine years 
old and still living though attacked by the fungus (/ndothia 
parasitica) at its base. This tree was brought for the purpose 
from the plantation at Hamden. A Riker mount showing the 
fungus in the bark and explaining its reproductive methods was 
also shown. 
For the educational exhibit at this celebration, Miss Best as- 
sembled specimens of study material which the Garden distributes 
to schools. 
At Columbia University College of Pharmacy —For the exhibit 
of “Drug Botany” held May 24-25 and May 31—June 1, we 
supplied the following plants: 
Potted plants: Marrubium vulgare, Mentha piperita, Lycoper- 
sicum esculentum, Erythroxylon Coca, Mimosa pudica, Urginea 
maritima, Aloe verascens, Convallaria majalis. 
Cut specimens: Adonis sp., Delphinium sp., Ficus carica, Coffea 
arabica, Sassafras variifolium, Prunus avium, Rhamnus cathartica, 
Hamamelis virginiana, Vanilla planifolia, Amomum Cardamon, 
Cinnamomum Camphora, Pinus Strobus, Matricaria, Tanacetiim 

