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lectures, accoinpanicnl In- iii-actical \\(»r1< in llic i^rcenhouscs, ^vas 

 offered on Fridays, l'\'l). IS to Marcli 25, witli Miss Margaret M. 

 Dorward the instiiictor. At the re(jiiest of several teachers and 

 others interested in th(> taxonomy of seed plants. Miss Rusk or- 

 ganized a conrse of 15 weeks (hu'ation, meeting- at the Garden 

 Saturday niornings, commencing- Xo^-eml)er 5. 



Otlicr Courses Couditclcd by Mniihrrs of lliis ncparimciil. — In 

 addition to those alrea(h- noted imdcr '' new courses " the following- 

 courses, announced in the Prospectus, \\ere conducted h}- meml)ers 

 ot this department : 



1. Trees and Slinths of Crcater Neiv )'ork. — (ii\-en, as irsual, 

 on Saturday afternoons in the spring and fall ])y Miss Vilkomerson 

 and myself. 



2. Medicinal Plaiils and General Botany in Relation to Medi- 

 cine. — This course, for student nurses, was conducted for the 12th 

 consecutive year, the enrollment heing. Kings Countv Hos])ital 

 (spring) 56, (fall) ICU; Prospect Heights llosi)ital (fall) 11; 

 and St. Johns Hos])ital (fall) 32, making a total for the year of 

 202. King-s Count}' is the only one of these three hosjiitals Avhich 

 admits students in the s])ring as well as in the fall, so that the 

 sj^ring class consists of Kings Countv lh)si)ital students ouW. 

 The fall students, 146 in all, were divided into 3 grou]xs of ahout 

 50 each, ^\■hich met at the (warden on W'ednesdav. Thursdav, and 

 P'riday mornings through Octoher. Xo\-eml)er, and |)art of De- 

 cember. 



3. Beginning with the new school year in the fall. ^liss Kusk 

 conducted her course in General l^otauy from the stan(I])oint of 

 " adult education," rather than that of a colk-ge course, and from 

 a cultural rather than technical point of yiew. 



4. Flowerinf/ I'lanls: Field and Laboratory Study. — During the 

 Jn-st half of the year, Miss Rusk continued with this course which 

 had commenced the ])revious fall. 



5 & 6. During the sjiring ^liss Ivusk condnctt^l a I'ield Class in 

 A^afiz'e JJlId Flo7cers for scA'cn weeks, and in the fall, a similar 

 class for six weeks. 



Total ^Idult Refjistration. — Tlie total number of ackdts regrs- 

 tered in our courses in 1938 was /f)], a ll\-e \)vv cent, decrease from 

 the registration in 1937, which was 802. A possible ex]danation 



