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damages. The walks are really beyond the stage where patching 
will suffice. What is needed is a reconstruction of the surface 
throughout most of the Garden. 
ATTENDANCE 
The total attendance for the year of 1,798,029 is nearly 72,000 
more than for 1938, and is the largest in the history of the Garden. 
For the four months of June, July, August, and September the 
attendance was 689,498, or more than 80,000 in excess of the 
attendance for the corresponding months of last vear. Whether, 
or to what extent, the World’s Fair may have been a factor in this 
increase it is difficult to say. The lack of rain was favorable for 
attendance, but the heat was excessive and this usually sends peo- 
ple to the seashore or out of the city and so makes for a smaller 
attendance. The increase in general attendance may be attributed 
in part to the attendance of 80,270 in classes from the schools, an 
increase of more than 41,000 over 1938. 
Week-end attendances (Saturday, 12-6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 
a.m.—O p.m.) were as follows: April 29-30, 38,866; May 6-7, 
43,581; May 13-14, 36,369. The attendance for April 30-May 1, 
1938, was 56,145 or 12,564 more than the highest for 1939. It is 
the general impression that the chief factor in this falling off was 
the World's Fair, which opened April 30. Further data are given 
in the appended report of the curator of public instruction. 
Botany ror Every MAN 
Last year the Brooklyn Botanic Garden published statistics con- 
cerning the history, organization, and work of more than 550 bo- 
tanic gardens located in 80 countries.'. An analysis of these data 
shows that the Brooklyn Botanic Garden apparently has the most 
extensive program of popular education, for adults and children, of 
any botanic garden in the world. The year’s educational work is 
fo, 
summarized in the appended reports of the curators of public anc 
of elementary instruction. Of a scientific and educational per- 
sonnel of twenty-five, ten persons devote part of their time and 
fifteen persons, or 60 per cent. of the total, devote all of their time 
jan 
1 Gager, C. Stuart. Botanic Gardens of the World. Brooklyn Bot. Gard. 
Record 27: 151-400. July, 1938. 
