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members of the Fifteenth Annual Rose Garden Day on June 9; 
(7) September 23, telling of Fall Rose Garden Day on October 8: 
and (8) October 13, announcing Chrysanthemum Day on October 
27. In addition, a mimeographed letter was sent on January 31 
to 150 Garden Clubs announcing the Victory Garden meeting 
on February 19. 
PERSONNEL 
Miss Rusk, besides her routine Botanic Garden work, has 
served as Librarian and Curator of the Herbarium of the Ameri- 
can Fern Society. She has had the voluntary assistance of Mrs. 
Herbert Lawrence, a member of the Garden and one of her pupils, 
lor 2 half days a week for 7 months in the year. 
Miss Ashwell has prepared a new loan set of lantern slides 
on the subject of soil conservation, which, on account of lack of 
funds, is not yet ready for lending to the schools. 
In January, I was elected to serve for another 3 year term on 
the Council of the Torrey Botanical Club, and I continued to 
serve as an associate editor of the Bulletin of the Club. I con- 
tinued as editor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Leaflets and 
Contributions, and as editor of the plant section of Biological 
Abstracts. In January, I was elected a director of the School 
Nature League of New York City. I was appointed the delegate 
from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to the celebration of the 75th 
anniversary of the founding of the Torrey Botanical Club. As 
a representative of the Garden, I attended two meetings of the 
Museums Council of New York City. I worked during the 
summer months at the chestnut plantation at Hamden, Conn., 
where we are carrying on breeding experiments with a view to 
obtaining a blight-resistant chestnut of timber type. During the 
year I continued to serve as Boy Scout Counselor in Forestry 
for Brooklyn. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 

The answering of requests for information, in person, by letter, 
and by telephone has, as usual, occupied a considerable portion 
of the time of the members of this department. 
