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The following points are dealt with in the accompanying report: 
Attendance 
Work with Students 
Materials for Schools 
C. Stuart Gager Memorial Service and Special Days 
Library 
Herbarium 
Grounds 
Conservatories 
Financial 
Research and Related 
vestigators 

Activities of Curators and Resident In- 
Respectfully submitted, 
GEORGE S. AVERY, JR. 
Director 
Attendance. The ee on the grounds for the six 
months period, January 1 to July 1, 1944, was 687,791. 
Work with Students. In the peri aes courses, registra- 
meeting on regular Saturday morning 
schedules, was well over 200. Registration in teachers’ classes, on 
an advanced level, was 165. In addition, the visiting class at- 
tendance was over 24,000 and involved 550 special sessions.* 
Children’s Gardens are mentioned briefly under “Grounds. 
In eight different courses, ranging from “Relations of Plants to 
Mankind” to “Wild Flowers and Ferns,” the total registration 
was 171.? 
Materials for Schools. Irom the report of Ellen Eddy Shaw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction. 90% of the Brooklyn schools 
availed themselves of the privilege of buying penny packets of 
seed; 60% of the Queens schools, and 50% of those in the Bronx. 
Brooklyn and Queens are the boroughs we concentrate on. The 
total number of packets distributed through the schools was 1,- 
166,399. Fifty per cent of the filling of packets is done voluntarily 
by our children during the summer. 
tion in children’s classes, 
1 From the report of Ellen Eddy Shaw, Curator of Elementary Instruction. 
°From the report of Arthur Harmount Graves, Curator of Public In- 
struction, 
