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Guide No. 15. The Llerb Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
published in the January number of the Record. In Part 1 Miss 
Elizabeth Remsen Van Brunt, Honorary Curator of Culinary 
Herbs, describes Culinary Herbs: Their Culture, Traditions, and 
Use. In Part 2 Mrs. Virginia Riddle Svenson, of the Department 
of Home Economics of New York University, in Cooking with 
flerbs, gives recipes for using forty-five of the culinary herbs 
growing in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Guide No. 16. The Medicinal Plant Garden of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden was published in the July number of the Record. 
There is a Foreword by Dr. C. Stuart Gager, A Brief Historical 
Survey of the Use of Plants in Medicine by Dr. Arthur Harmount 
Graves, Medicinal Uses of Drug Plants Cultivated in the Medicinal 
Plant Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Professor C. W 
Ballard, Dean, College of Pharmacy, Columbia University, with 
the collaboration of Dr. Ralph H. Cheney, Resident Investigator, 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Chairman, Biology Department, Long 
Island University, and Prof. F. J. Pokorny, College of Pharmacy, 
Columbia University, and Mr. William E. Jordan, Librarian, 
gives A Short List of the Books in the Library of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden Dealing with the Early Use of Plants in Medicine. 
The Library.—The Librarian reports that 153 volumes were 
purchased, gifts during the year including 81 volumes, 372 pam- 
phlets, and 936 parts. Of periodicals and other serials, 488 were 
received as exchanges, 90 as gifts, 99 as purchases, and 5 through 
publication. Loans to other institutions totaled 32 items. 
erbarium.— There were added to the Phanerogamic Her- 
barium 1112 specimens by exchange, 875 by gift, 8 by collection, 
and 301 by purchase. One fern specimen was received as a gift. 
2,105 specimens were added to the Mycological Herbarium. 
Personnel.—\/r. Andrew J. Gonnoud and Mr. Donald G. C. 
Sinclair were elected as new members of the Botanic Garden 

Governing Committee at the meeting of the Trustees of the 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on April 9. 
Dr. George M. Reed became Acting Director of the Botanic 
Garden as of September 24. 
Miss G. Elizabeth Ashwell resigned as Curatorial Assistant in 
the Department of Public Instruction as of July 31. 
