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material and about 25,000 thronoh the distribution of plants Avhich 

 are sent to schoolrooms for decoration. Over 40,000 plants were 

 raised in our instruction ^greenhouses, and during one month alone, 

 the month of March, over 1,100 people worked in the greenhouse, 

 including both children and adults. Over 2,000 plants were sup- 

 plied to the different school gardens. 



Among the lectures given in 1938, the most outstanding were 

 those given in June. On June 27, I presented "The Educational 

 Work of the Brooklyn Iiotanic Garden " at the De])artment of 

 Science Instruction meeting, at the National Education Association 

 Convention in Xew York. On the next clay I gave a second talk 

 and demonstration with children from our Saturday morning- 

 classes. A number of talks were given over the radio, one in 

 December, at Richmond, Virginia, over WMBG, on " Gardens 

 for Children." At the same time an announcement was made of 

 the Curator's appointment to the i)residency of the American 

 Nature Study Society, an organization affiliated with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Richmond 

 this \ear. 



In early June the new Botanical Garden in Montreal sent Miss 

 Marcelle Gauvreau to spend a week with us studying the methods 

 we used in our Saturday morning classes and our visiting classes, 

 and later, Mr. Marcel Racine, from the same institution, came for 

 a day's survey to follow up some of the results of Miss Gauvreau's 

 study. 



Miss Miner was still on leave of absence to make a survey of 

 children's garden work for the National l-vecrcation Association 

 until October 1, when she returned to the Garden. During her 

 absence Miss Michalena E. Carroll sul)stituted for her and was 

 then asked to stay for the year 1939. Miss Carroll attended the 

 Blue Ridge Eourth Annual Coo])erati\e Art Conference, at Blue 

 Ridge, N. C, where she was one of the art staff during their 

 Conference. 



Our outdoor garden carried on its usual activities with Miss 

 Dorward taking charge in the absence of Miss Miner. One of 

 the interesting features of the garden this year was the French 

 class. Mr. Nicholas Fiorenza, a graduate of St. Francis College, 

 gave a course in botanical French, in which the children learned 

 the French names of the flowers and their iiarts. 



