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As usual, material for plant study and general nature study was 
distributed to the schools by request. In this way nearly 200,000 
children benefitted, and some 4,000 teachers. Much of this mate- 
rial is planned for and collected during the summer by Miss 
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Hammond who has a month given her for the purpose of gather- 
ing, mounting, and arranging material for this part of the work, 
During the spring of 1939 Miss Hammond gave a course in 
Nature Study for Camp Counselors at the request of the American 
Institute of the City of New York, as part of their Workshop 
Courses. Seventeen young people registered for the course, some 
of whom came from New Jersey and as far out on Long Island 
as Rockville Centre. 
In March, a course on School and Home Gardening was planned 
and inaugurated for teachers of the City by Mr. Marvin M. 
Brooks, Director of School Garden and Nature Work for the 
Board of Education, and given by him and Miss Miner at the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
The Department and the Botanic Garden are both indebted to 
Miss Carroll, Instructor in this Department, for work done in her 
own time, such as the design for the cover of the folder of Spring 
Courses; for assistance to Dr. Gager on the brochure issued by 
the Garden in the spring; for the special paintings of our display 
at the World’s Fair, and the design for a Japanese frame to hold 
a painting used at the iris display at the Fair. Legends for the 
film of the Garden and the Children’s Work were also designed 
and lettered by Miss Carroll. 
During the last summer Miss Carroll gave a course at Blue 
Ridge College, N. C., under the heading of “The Relation of 
Plant Life to Art,” as she has done for the past two years. She 
has also been made a member of the Committee of Directors of 
the Conference. 
In the fall Mrs. Adelaide Derringer was sent by the new De- 
partment of Public Recreation of the City of Baltimore (which 
began functioning January 1, 1939) to study our methods in 
children’s gardening, and spent six weeks with us. 
A number of gifts have been added to the Endowment Fund 
for Children’s Work. This Fund is still open and frequently 
sums are sent in, a number in memory of friends. The most 
