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of the Garden, for two half-days 
each week during the first half 
of the vear. In the summer 
Miss Rusk assisted me at the 
experimental chestnut plantations at Hamden, Connecticut. 
| have continued to serve as counselor for the Brooklyn Branch 
of the Boy Scouts of America, examining candidates for merit or 
for eagle badges; as editor of the plant section of General Biology 
for Biological Abstracts; editor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
Leaflets and of the Contributions; an associate editor of the 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club; a Director of the School 
Nature League of Manhattan; councillor for the Torrey Bo- 
tanical Club; member of the Museums Council of New York 
City; and Collaborator of the Division of Forest Pathology of 
the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of 
Agriculture. With the exception of ten days’ vacation in August, 
| spent the summer, from June 15 to September 15, in research 
work at our chestnut plantation at Hamden, Connecticut. 
Bureau of Information...\s usual, a considerable amount of 
time has been consumed in answering requests for information 
by telephone, by letter, and in person. 
oods Sent to Yale. During the year, wood ae of the 
following species were sent to the Yale School of Forestry to 
enrich their collection; and, at the same time, specimens were 
added to our own collections: Koelreuteria paniculata; Cedrela 
sinensis; Hippophae rhamnoides; Rose, Dr. Van Fleet; Rhus 
trilobata; Picrodendron; Benzoin aestivale. 
umni Reunion.—On Saturday afternoon, March 6, Mr. 
Rutherford Platt of the Platt-Forbes Company of New York 
City, again showed selections from his series of unique koda- 
chrome slides to an enthusiastic audience composed 
of alumni of 
our out-of-door classes. 
The ahair was called “Indoor winter 
field trip for ‘friends of plants’ (philophytes).’’ The ¢ 
indebted to Mr. 

yarden 1s 
Platt for his excellent and interesting presenta- 
tion of his subject and for this evidence of his continued interest 
in its work. 
Abraham Lincoln High School Field Day. —-On Saturday morn- 
ing, May 15, 90 pupils of the Abraham Lincoln High School 
biology department observed their annual Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden field day. Outlines of the various features of the Garden, 
prepared and mimeographed by this department, were distributed 
