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There were 91 requests for miscellaneous teaching materials, 
from 55 institutions, but the amount of material sent out tells little. 
It might be of interest to take one example. Two thousand three 
hundred thirty-six plants given away were used in classes totaling 
over 50,000 pupils, and more than that, the requests for this ma- 
terial sent the name and help of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
from Benjamin Franklin High School in Manhattan, to Newtown 
High School in Queens, to the Red Hook Housing Project through 
the C.D.V.O., to the Coney Island and Shore Road Hospitals in 
Brooklyn, and from elementary schools in the Bronx and Queens 

back to Brooklyn. 
C. Stuart Gager Memorial Service and Special Days. The 
thirtieth annual Spring Inspection of the Garden was made the oc- 
casion of memorial exercises in honor of Dr, Gager, the Garden’s 
first Director. An address of appreciation was delivered by Mr. 
John C. Wister, Director of the Arthur Hoyt Scott Horticultural 
Foundation. Miss Hilda Loines, Chairman of the Governing 
Committee of the Garden, presided. About 250 members and 
guests were present, and many were later conducted on a tour of 
the Garden by members of the staff. This meeting is reported in 
full in an earlier issue (REcorp 33 (2): 169-178. 1944). 
The Seventeenth Annual Rose Garden Day occurred on June 6. 
Mr. Walter D. Brownell of Little Compton, R. I., spoke on “Gar- 
den rose betterment.’ This was followed by a tour of the Rose 
Garden led by Mr. Brownell, Mr. Free and Mr. Tilley. Tea was 
served in the Rotunda of the Laboratory Building, members of the 
Woman’s Auxiliary acting as hostesses. About 100 members and 
guests attended, among them Mrs. Walter V. Cranford, co-donor 
of the Rose Garden, and her daughter, Miss Margaret Cranford. 
Library. [rom the Report of William E. Jordan, Librarian. 
The collections at present comprise 45,425 pieces, of which num- 
ber 23,288 are volumes and 22,137 are pamphlets, an increase of 
69 volumes and 340 pamphlets, or 409 pieces. Volumes purchased 
totaled 36. Gifts were 14 volumes, 275 pamphlets, and 406 parts. 
The list of donors is included in Appendix I. 
Loans to other institutions totaled 39 items; 1 item was bor- 
rowed for the use of our staff. 
