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Hospitals. — The appended report of the curator of public in- 

 struction records our cooperation with the nurses' training schools 

 of five local hospitals in offering a course of lectures and field 

 trips in the Garden for training classes for nurses, with special 

 reference to medicinal plants. The medicinal plant garden, in- 

 stalled in 1937, with about 115 species and varieties of trees. 

 shrubs, and herbaceous plants now used in medicine, has greatly 

 facilitated this work which was started some 14 years ago (in 

 1927). Classes from rive hospitals were enrolled in 1940 — Pros- 

 pect Heights, King's County, Jewish, Cumberland, and St. Johns. 



In September Miss Sybil MacLean, supervisor of instruction, 

 and Miss Brown, of St. Luke's Hospital, Amsterdam Ave. and 

 113th St.. Xew York, visited the Garden. They were presented 

 with many cuttings of plants for propagation at St. Luke's. 



Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. — From the establishment of the 

 Garden, in 1910, we have been in almost continuous cooperation 

 with the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities in the matter of employ- 

 ment of men registered at the Bureau. Mr. .Alfred T. White, the 



father" of the Garden, was for several years president of the 

 Bureau. A letter of February 14, 1940, from Mrs. Pumphrey, 

 of the Flatbush District ( )Hice of the Ihireau, reads in part as 

 follows : 



"May f take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you 

 and the members of your staff have shown Mr. - — since we 



referred him to you in July, 1938. Aside from having learned a 

 new line of work which he can carry on in the future, the en- 

 couragement he continuously received from his contacts at your 

 institution has done a great deal to build up his self-confidence so 

 he can hold his job." 



The Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn maintains children's 

 gardens for about thirty boys and girls, and the Garden cooperates 

 with this work through its Department of Elementary Instruction. 



During June the same Department, through Miss Hammond, 

 cooperated with the American institute of the City of New York 

 in conducting a "Workshop Course" for the members of their 

 science and engineering clubs. 



