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lustrations of work with visiting classes from public and private 

 schools; (4) Boys' and Girls' Club Room, Children's Library, and 

 other educational equi|)ment; (5) Educational greenhouses for 

 children and adults. The weather in the afternoon was ideal, but 

 threatening weather during the forenoon may have o])erated to 

 somewhat reduce the attendance, which was estimated at about 500. 



Personnel 



Mr. Edward C. BJuin, who has been ])resident of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences for ten years (May, 1928-1938) 

 was, on April 14, 1938, elected tcj the newly created office of 

 Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 



Mr. James G. McDonald was elected president of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences at the meeting of the Board on 

 April 14, 1938, succeeding Mr. Blum. F'or some time the duties 

 of this office have become gradually more onerous and too time- 

 consuming to be discharged by the voluntary services of an other- 

 wise busy man, and so it was decided to make the presidency a 

 salaried office to be filled by a full-time incumbent. Mr. Mc- 

 Donald, the first president under the new arrangement, has had 

 a wide experience in administration. After graduating from the 

 University of Indiana in 1909, he did graduate work there and in 

 Harvard University, and in 1915 he traveled in Spain and France 

 as Woodbury Lowery traveling fellow of Harvard. From 1919 to 

 1933, he served as the first chairman of the Foreign Policy Asso- 

 ciation. His other offices include vice-presidency of the National 

 Council for the Prevention of War, membership in the executive 

 committee of the National Commission on American-Jaj^anese 

 Relations, membership in the Commission on International Justice 

 and Good-Will of the Federal Council of Churches. membershi]i in 

 the advisory council of the League of Nations Association. Just 

 previous to coming to the Brooklyn Institute, he was League of 

 Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and a member of the 

 editorial staff of the New York Times. 



Mr. David H. Lanuian, who became a member of the Botanic 

 Garden Governing Committee on INFarch 19, 1937, resigned from 

 the Board of Trustees on October 13, 1938, thus terminating his 

 membership on the Governing Committee. 



