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barium, including 700 received by gift and 1,605 by exchange. 
Through lack of adequate help a great many specimens remain 
unmounted. As in the case of other aspects of our work, a sub- 
stantial endowment fund is greatly needed exclusively for her- 
barium purposes. The nucleus of this endowment now amounts 
to only $4,000. 
COOPERATION 
In addition to cooperation with various governmental and civic 
war organizations, recorded on pages 45 and 54, the Garden has 
cooperated during 1942 with the following organizations and 
agencies : 
U.S. Departinent of Agriculture 
Through the Bureau of Plant Industry, 1 connection with the 
plant disease investigations reported by Dr. George M. Reed on 
page 75 and following. 
State Agricultural Experiment Stations 
Several in connection with Dr. Reed’s work, and the Connecti- 
cut Station in connection with Dr, Graves’s work with the chestnut 
disease. 
New York State Institute of Applied Agriculture 
Supplied with 450 scions of flowering cherry and 50 of wisteria, 
as reported by Mr. Free. 
Board of Higher Education 
On recommendation of the Committee on Prizes and Scholar- 
ships of the Department of Biology of Brooklyn College, the 
annual scholarship in Botanic Garden Classes, awarded for su- 
perior work in biology, was awarded in May to Miss Caroline 
Aaronson. The fall award was not made. 
The biology classes of the four colleges of the City College group 
(City and Hunter Colleges in Manhattan, Brooklyn College, and 
Queens College) were supplied, as usual, with considerable living 
plant material for laboratory study. 
