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Adelaide S. Van Brunt, from photographs made during many 
years by her late husband, Cornelius Van Brunt. 
A series of lectures to the pupils and teachers of public 
schools, designed to illustrate and supplement their work in 
nature study, is given in the large lecture hall on afternoons 
in autumn and spring, and these lectures are attended by 
many thousand children. 
A special series of lectures designed for teachers alone is 
given on Saturday morning in the autumn and spring. 
The Horticultural Society of New York holds several of its 
monthly meetings at the Garden, using the large lecture hall, 
and also uses the basement museum hall adjacent for the 
purpose of exhibitions. 
The Torrey Botanical Club holds monthly meetings from 
October to May, on the afternoon of the last Wednesday of 
each month, in the museum building, and many of its field 
meetings on Saturday afternoons throughout the season are 
held at the Garden. 
THE LIBRARY 
The library of the Garden is located in the center of the 
upper floor of the museum building, and is available for con- 
sultation, by permission. It has been formed by the Board of 
Managers in order to provide for the use of students, all the 
literature of botany, horticulture and related sciences, and is 
rapidly becoming one of the most complete collections in the 
world of books and pamphlets dealing with these subjects. 
THE HERBARIUM 
The herbarium consists of dried specimens of plants sys- 
tematically arranged in cases; it occupies the greater portion 
of several rooms on the upper floor of the museum building, 
and is available for consultation by permission. It contains 
prepared specimens of all kinds of plants from all quarters of 
the globe, and is the most extensive and complete collection 
of its kind in America. 
