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A charming folder, designed l)y Miss Carroll, was sent out as a 

 follow-up after the Anniversary, in which the children oiTered 

 to our friends an op])ortunity to help make future work secure. 

 At present (Deceniher 31, 1938) the Fund has reached more 

 than $8,500.00, which we hope may he added to as the years 

 pass hy. 



This might seem the proper occasion to thank all those helping 

 to make our Anniversary a successful time. To the Woman's 

 Auxiliary, the Board of Trustees, the educational friends of our 

 Borough, to you, and my colleagues in this institution, my De- 

 partment and I wish to extend our heartfelt thanks. 



International Service of the Department 



Like other departments of the Botanic Garden, the activities of 

 the Department of Elementary Instruction have not heen confined 

 to Brooklyn. They have included all five horoughs of Greater 

 New York, every state in the Union, several provinces of Canada, 

 and eight other foreign countries, as shown in the accompanying 

 map. 



Miscellaneous 



Four colored transparencies, of aspects of plant life, made hy 

 our photographer, I\lr. Puihle, and colored hy JMiss Elizaheth 

 Bonta, were placed early in i\lay at the central panes of each of 

 four windows in the Boys' and Girls' Club Room. 



During the year 1938 I acted as Honorary Secretary of the 

 National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, Director of the School 

 Garden Association of New York, one of the Vice-Presidents of 

 the School Garden Association of America, Consultant of the 

 Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc., and President 

 of the New York Chapter of the American Nature Study Society. 

 In December I was made national President of the American 

 Nature Study Society. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Ellen Eddy Shaw, 

 Curator of Elementary Instruction. 



