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appreciated action was taken in recognition of the fact that the 
Garden is now the botanical center of Brooklyn, and that all 
botanical collections will be of greatest usefulness to the largest 
number of citizens if deposited at the Garden. The collection was 
received on November 20. 
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Among recent additions to the library is a complete set of the 
Gardener’s Chronicle, consisting of 104 bound volumes, from 1844 
to 1913. This set is nearly perfect, the thirteen missing parts and 
figures being fortunately of very little importance. 
The fall planting in the systematic section included about one 
thousand shrubs. Two shipments of plants expected, one from 
France, the other from Australia, were not shipped on account of 
the abnormal conditions caused by the European war. 
On Saturday, September 24, 1914, the New York Section of 
the National Nature Study Association met at the Ethical Culture 
School, Manhattan. Mrs, Anna Botsford Comstock, national presi- 
dent, spoke on Nature Study. Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, of the 
Garden staff, was elected president of the Section for the ensuing 
year. : 
On December 11, the Associated High School Biology Clubs of 
New York City held their first meeting at the Laboratory building 
of the Garden. At the close of the business session an address ~ 
was delivered by the Director of the Garden. ‘The biology clubs 
of the City high schools are voluntary organizations, composed of 
students who have done meritorious work in biology. The fed- 
eration of the clubs was accomplished during the fall of 1914, with 
Mr. Walter Measday, of Erasmus Hall High School, as president. 
