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WNYC. Printed programs were distributed to our members and 

 others, for each half year, and a total of 31 broadcasts was given, 

 as listed in Appendix 4 of this Report. 



Fan mail gives evidence ol a wide-spread interest in these pro- 

 grams. As main- as 36 states, the District of Columbia, and 

 Canada are represented in the year's mail received from about 

 1,200 "gardeners" asking for information about Club member- 

 ships and for Digests of recent broadcasts. Station WRAL, of 

 the Capitol Broadcasting Company, Raleigh, North Carolina, part 

 of the Mutual Network, is now included, and Radio Garden Club 

 schedules have been mailed to all the teachers in Raleigh, as well as 

 to members ol book clubs in that city. 



Extra-Mural and Intra-Mnral lectures, not including broadcasts, 

 were given by members of the Garden personnel, to adults and 

 children, to the number of 956. with a total attendance of 61,035. 



Research, 1940 



Brief summaries of the results of research in progress during 

 the year may be found on pages 81-101. 



Award of Guggenheim Fellozvship. — On March 27, 1940, Dr. 

 Svenson, curator of the herbarium, received word from Mr. Henry 

 Allen Moe, Secretary of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 

 of his appointment, upon the nomination ol the (. ommittee of 

 Selection, to a fellowship of the Foundation. The " Project " for 

 which this award is made is " An investigation of the relationship 

 of tlu- flora of western South America to that of the Galapagos 

 Islands." 



In 1930 Dr. Svenson, as botanist of the Astor Expedition to the 

 Galapagos, made a study of the flora of those Islands. Some of 

 the results of that study have been published as Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden Contributions, No. 69. 



It may be recalled here that it was a study of life on the 

 Galapagos Islands that gave Charles Darwin the impetus and the 

 clue which led to the elaboration of his epoch-making theory of 

 "natural selection " as the method of organic evolution. Here as 

 elsewhere. Darwin's work uncovered important new problems to 

 be solved, including the sources and affinities ol the Galapagos 

 flora. 



