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Penny Packets of Seeds were supplied in a total number of 
958,028 to pupils in 531 schools of all Boroughs of the City. 
Potted Plants, to the number of 1,065, were placed in classrooms 
of 64 schools with 83,915 pupils in attendance. 
Loan Lectures (lantern slides with lecture text) were supplied 
to 169 teachers for the instruction of 12,647 pupils. 
Board of Higher Education 
The annual scholarship assigned each year to a student in the 
Department of Biology of Brooklyn College for superior work in 
biology was awarded on September 29 to Miss Flora Green, who 
was nominated by the Committee on Scholarships and Prizes of 
the Department. Miss Gace registered in course B14, “ Trees 
and Shrubs of New York.’ 
Some of the study material reported above under Board of 
Education was supplied to instructors in eleven colleges and uni- 
versities. 
Brooklyn College was, on May 11, given a quantity of aquatic 
plants for the water garden on the College campus. On June 7 
we gave the College, for its new library, complete files, so far as 
available, of our Record, Contributions, and Leaflets. 
Science Council and Science Teachers Clubs.—In connection with 
our service to high school biology teachers, Dr. D. Elizabeth Marcy, 
research assistant, set up an exhibit at the Annual Luncheon of 
the Science Council and Science Teachers’ Clubs of New York 
City, held at the Hotel Astor on February 25th. The exhibit was 
entitled “ Methods of Plant Propagation,” and illustrated propa- 
gation by cuttings, offsets, runners, rhizomes, bulbs, grafting, and 
poe 
budding. Great interest was shown, and requests from teachers 
for this sort of material from the Botanic Garden have increased. 
Miscellaneous Cooperation 
World’s Fair Commission of the City of New York.—On May 
3 we supplied to this Commission one truck load of palms and 
other plants to be used for decorative purposes in the New York 
City Building at the Fair. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia is 
Chairman of this Commission, the Park Commissioner, Robert 
