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to educational work or to curatorial care of collections (planta- 
tions, library, et cetera) required for the proper conduct of this 
work; this includes formal courses of instruction; lectures and 
addresses at the Garden and elsewhere; docentry for visitors to the 
plantations and conservatories; a bureau of free public informa- 
tion on all aspects of plant life and gardening; popular publica- 
tions; advisory service and other cooperation with the Department 
of Parks, the Board of Health (City hospitals and other institu- 
tions), the Board of Higher Education (City colleges), and the 
Board of Education, with extensive service to the public, ele- 
mentary, and high schools of the City (including the supply of 
large quantities of plant material for study and for the beautifica- 
tion of classrooms), and the formal teaching of some 80,000 
pupils in the City schools who came to the Botanic Garden with 
their teachers for instruction. 
Of those devoting all their time to education (services to City 
departments and to the general public), nearly 63 per cent. of the 
total salaries is provided from Private Funds; of those devoting 
half time or less to education, more than 65 per cent. of the total 
salaries is derived from Private Funds, the remainder, in each 
case, from the City Tax Budget. 
Science 1s for the Public 
“To the flourishing of science. To that science which does not 
fence itself off from the people, which does not keep itself at a 
distance from the people, but is ready to serve the people, is ready 
to pass on all the conquests of science to the people, which serves 
the people not from compulsion but voluntarily, readily.” This 
quotation, from Joseph Stalin, is taken from one of the wall 
panels in the U.S.S.R. Building at the New York World’s Fair, 
The quotation is given here not because it states anything new, 
but because it states so concisely and with emphasis that which has 
always been the aim and the contribution of science and of scien- 
tists themselves in all lands and at all times, especially in democra- 
cies— to serve “the people not from compulsion but voluntarily, 
readily.” During the past decade we have witnessed the strange 
anachronism of a national government giving and withholding 
