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the publication has demonstrated its usefulness and its success 
sufficiently to justify an appeal for a permanent fund, producing 
an annual income of from $800 to $1,000. 
2. Motion Pictures—Little has yet been done in the application 
of motion pictures to plant life. To be sure we have seen a few 
flower buds open, and one or two seeds germinate, but the possibili- 
ties have hardly yet been realized, not only of popularizing a phase 
of plant life almost unknown outside of advanced laboratories, but 
of making advanced teaching more effective, and even of adding 
to the possibilities of research. Funds should be available at once 
sufficient to enable the Garden to conduct experiments involving 
the taking of negatives, and to enrich its public lectures with 
motion films. 
3. Study Collections—The Board of Education of New York 
City has been more generous than the boards of many other cities 
in providing living plant-material for the high school courses in 
botany, but, as noted in the July, 1913, number of the Recorp, 
there is no provision whatever made by the Board of Education 
to enable the teachers of nature study in the elementary schools to 
carry out the requirements of the nature study syllabus. It would 
be unwise for the Garden to attempt to supply any, or even a large 
share of this material; the enormous quantities of it which are 
demanded make this impracticable; but there are certain things, 
the preparation of which requires a knowledge of botany and of 
class-room needs, and which, therefore, cannot, to good advantage, 
be secured from a commercial florist. This material, together 
with lantern slides for school lectures, the Garden could supply in 
the form of loan collections. Their preparation, annual main- 
tenance, and distribution would need a sum of about $200 a year. 
4. Botanical Illustrating —The giving of popular and technical 
lectures, and the issuing of popular and scientific publications, 
together with the making of lantern slides to loan to schools, 
demands the preparation of botanical illustrations in large quanti- 
ties. This requires the purchase of considerable material and 
equipment, and the services, on part time, of a photographer and a 
pen artist. Eleven hundred dollars is a conservative estimate of 
the amount that could be used to Exess for this purpose each 
year. 
