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assisted me in the course in the fall given to the class of 37 student 
nurses from St. Johns Hospital. 
Publicity.—Seventy-one pages of news items about the Gar- 
den were mailed at weekly or biweekly intervals through the year 
to principal metropolitan newspapers and to various periodicals, 
especially those dealing with gardening or the home. As usual, 
members of our staff have given radio talks over WNYC, the 
municipal station, from January to June and from October to 
December inclusive. This year these talks came on alternate 
Fridays at 3:30 p.m. Programs of these talks were prepared, 
printed and issued to members and friends of the Garden. 
Courses about to start at the Garden have been described in these 
broadcasts and the public invited to attend. Circulars of our 
winter, spring, and fall courses were mailed to members and to 
former students in our classes. The annual Prospectus of Courses 
was issued in early September. Postcard bulletins were mimeo- 
graphed and mailed to members of the Garden as follows: January 
15, announcing the special conservatory exhibits of rubber, 
beverage, fiber plants, etc.; March 8, telling of seed catalogs avail- 
able for consultation in the Library; April 12, inviting members to 
a showing of sound films on Victory Gardening; September 13, 
telling of the Harvest Show in the Rotunda; and November 5, 
announcing the special display of Chrysanthemums in the Con- 
servatories. From January to April, inclusive, and in November 
and December, | have prepared or written articles on the Botanic 
Garden for the Brooklyn Institute Bulletin. I have announced 
the events at the Garden through the vear, by means of the four 
bulletin boards on the grounds, and in the IRT Eastern Parkway- 
Brooklyn Museum station. Placard advertisements of the Gar- 
den, telling of its principal features and attractions, have been 
placed in Brooklyn trolley cars, and arrangements for inserting 
similar cards in the New York subways are now under way. 
Personnel.—Miss Rusk has continued to serve as Librarian 
and Curator of the Herbarium of the American Fern Society. 
Besides her teaching of classes, mentioned above, she has assisted 
in docentry, prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, 
compiled the copy for the annual Prospectus of Courses, and 
assisted us in various other ways. As in former years, she had 
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