Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record 



VOL. XXVIII APRIL, 1939 NO. 2 



TWENT\-E[r,TlTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



RROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



1938 

 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



To TUK ]-)OT.\NJc Garden (jOveknjng Committee: 



I liavc the honor to ])rt\sciit licrcwitli tlic Twenty-Eighth Annual 

 Report of the Brooklyn liotanic Garden for the ealendar year 1938. 



TWEKTY-EIVE YeAKS OF ElE^FEXTARY EDUCATION 



On Noveniher 15. 17, cUicl 19, exercises were held at the Botanic 

 Garden to niark tlie twenty-fifth anniversary of the Department of 

 Elementary Instruction and tlie ai)]xjintment of Miss Ellen Eddv 

 Shaw who, as instructor. ])eginning Se]^temher I. 1913, organized 

 the work as a division of the Department of Pul)lic Instruction. 

 The third annual rejiort of the Garden, for 1913 (p. 43 j, records 

 the fact that " The first course of instruction to he offered at the 

 Garden hy a meml)er of the staff was on Indoor Plant Culture, 

 given on five successive Wednesdays, heginning Octoher 22." 

 Forty-six persons registered for this course, wdiich was given hy 

 Miss Shaw. 



Under her efficient administration the wT)rk grew ra])idly in 

 extent and diversity. She hecame Assistant Curator of Puhlic 

 instruction on January 1, 1915, and on January 1, 1916, a separate 

 Department of Elementary Instruction was created and Miss Shaw 



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