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or Job Number, 23 \Y. P. 4. As of June 30 the number of 

 persons assigned to the Project was 17, distributed as follows: 

 Exhibitions, 5; Research, 1; Education, 3; Administration, 2; 

 Bookbinding, 3. 



Work done for the Garden by WPA workers is mentioned in 

 detail in the appended reports of the various departments. 



Department of Parks 



The cooperation of the Park Department in the matter of the 

 alterations, replacements, and additions of the heating system in 

 die Conservatories and Laboratory Building is reported under 

 " Capital Outlay Budget," page 71. 



Courses of Instruction for Park Department Employees, and 

 others, were offered in both Spring and Fall. The Spring Course 

 of ten sessions on trees and shrubs, beginning April 18, had a 

 registration of 24 men. There were two Eall Courses. The one 

 on trees aand shrubs (I) 3), beginning October 10, meeting ten 

 times, had a registration of 17. The one on Gardening (D 4), 

 beginning September 25 and meeting twelve times, had a registra- 

 tion of 89. 



Grass for the animals in Prospect Park Zoo was supplied ibis 

 year, as usual. The animals dislike machine-cut grass because of 

 the taste of oil from the machine. The tall grass from the areas 

 of naturalized bulbs in the Garden is cut with a scythe and is iree 

 from the odor or taste ot oil. 



Tree labels. In September samples of our tree labels were sup- 

 plied to the Park Department in connection with their plan to 

 place labels on the more important trees in the various parks of 

 the city. 



Board of Higher Education 



The scholarship in Botanic Garden classes, awarded annually 

 to a student in Brooklyn College for superior work in biology, 

 was awarded in April to Miss Marjorie Elaustein, and in Sep- 

 tember to Mr. Eugene Rosenblum, both of whom were recom- 

 mended by the Committee on Prizes and Scholarships of the 

 Department of Biology of the College. 



