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being bound separately, and the laboratories are fairly well 
equipped. The scientific staff comprises, besides the director, 
Dr. George T. Moore, the plant physiologist, Dr. B. M. Duggar, 
who only recently assumed his position with the garden, and 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, honorary plant pathologist. 
The visit to the Phipps Conservatories and Phipps Hall of 
Botany,* Pittsburgh, was made on September 9, 1912. Your 
letter of introduction to Prof. Edgar Rynearson, Director of 
High Schools, was duly presented. Professor Rynearson kindly 
gave me directions for finding the institutions which I desired to 
inspect, and referred me to Dr. David R. Sumstine, of the 
Peabody High School, for further information. Dr. Sumstine, 
besides being in intimate touch with the teaching of botany in 
the High Schools of Pittsburgh, is an assistant in the section of 
botany in the Carnegie Museum. I am much indebted to Dr. 
Sumstine for courtesies accorded me. Unfortunately I was un- 
able to have the further guidance of Mr. Otto E. Jennings, the 
Curator of Botany of the Carnegie Museum, to whom Dr. Sums- 
tine further referred me, as he had not yet returned to the city 
from his Canadian collecting trip. The Carnegie Museum, as 
will be remembered, is located near one of the main entrances to 
Shenley Park, while the Phipps Conservatories and Phipps Hall 
of Botany are located back in the park, over a quarter of a mile 
from the museum building. ‘This distance, as was later pointed 
out by Dr. Sumstine, presents some disadvantages in connection 
with the transporting of pupils to the conservatories and_ hall 
of botany. "The distance which the pupils must walk from the 
nearest car-line to the Phipps laboratory, and the consequent 
loss of time, presents, in fact, such a serious obstacle that, com- 
bined with other disadvantages, it has caused some modification 
of plans, at least for the present, in regard to the use of the 
Phipps Hall of Botany for teaching purposes. In this connec- 
tion, it is of interest to recall the central location of our own 
Garden, affording, by several rapid transit lines, easy access to 
the pupils and teachers in most of the public and private schools 
of Brooklyn. 
Respectfully submitted, 
3 October, 1912. (Signed) Epcar W. Orrve, 
Curator. 


*Cf. Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 4: 67-70. 1912. 
