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Walter A. Bastedo, M.D., representing The New York Academy 
of Medicine. 
Dean Jean A. Curran, M.D., representing The Long Island 
College of Medicine. 
Frederick Schroeder, M.D., representing Kings County Medical 
Society. 
William H. Weygandt, D.Phar., representing Brooklyn College 
of Pharmacy. 
Ralph H. Cheney, Se.D., Chairman, representing Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden. 
About 250 persons attended, including students from the Long 
Island College of Medicine and the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. 
CooPERATION 
Works Progress Administration 
Our cooperation with the various Relief Administrations, which 
began in 1931 with the Emergency Unemployment Relief Com- 
mittees, has continued without interruption with various City and 
Federal Relief “ Committees’ and “ Administrations” through to 
the close of 1939. The various units are recorded in the eight 
preceding Annual Reports. 
Our present project began in 1933 under CWA (Civil Works 
Administration) and ERB (Emergency Relief Bureau). On 
August 1, 1935, it was changed to WPA (Works Progress Ad- 
ministration), Service or Job Number 465—97—-3-69, and_ this 
continued through June, 1939. 
On July 1 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the 
Public Works Administration (PWA) were consolidated under 
one head, with the name “ Works Projects Administration,” thus 
retaining the abbreviation, ‘““ WPA,” with a new connotation. 
Under this set-up our Official Project Number is 65-1-97, and 
the Service or Job Number is 23. 
In July there began a nation-wide layoff of the WPA workers 
who had been enrolled for eighteen months or longer. During the 
first six months of 1939 the Botanic Garden had 17 WPA workers 
—imen and women, in various kinds of work. A few of these 
had been at the Garden continuously for some six or seven years. 
