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nition of his services; to have known him was a rare pleasure; 
fortunate the city of his citizenship. 
C. STUART GAGER. 
GRADUATION OF GARDEN TEACHERS 
The annual graduation exercises of teachers of children’s gar- 
dening was held December eleventh, at three o’clock, in the labo- 
ratory building of the Botanic Garden. The course leading to a 
certificate in children’s gardening covers one year’s study, includ- 
ing a summer’s teaching in a children’s garden. Last November 
the first class of seven students received certificates. The enroll- 
ment in this course is now forty, but only four students received 
certificates this year. The members of the class are Mrs. Engerie 
Coles McCord, Miss Johanna L. Becker, Miss Maud E. Snedeker, 
all of Brooklyn; and Miss Elsa C. Wolf, of Indianapolis. 
Miss Alice Fitts, director of the Kindergarten Department of 
Pratt Institute, spoke to the graduates on “The value of garden- 
ing to the child.” The graduates of the class of 1914 presented 
a sundial, as a gift from them to the Botanic Garden. This is 
to be set up in the new children’s plot. Mrs. LeRoy Barton pre- 
sented the gift on behalf of the class. 
At the close of the exercises a reception was given in the Li- 
brary to the graduating class by the Garden Teachers Association 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Miss Lenda Hanks, of the 
Girls High School, and Miss Harriet Porrit, of P. S. No. 130, 
Manhattan, members of the Association, poured. 
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DOCTORATES IN BOTANY CONFERRED BY AMERI- 
CAN UNIVERSITIES IN ro15 
According to the list published in Science N. S. 422555-565 
Oct. 22, 1915, there were 40 doctorates given in botanical subjects 
by American universities during 1915; chemistry again leading all 
other subjects with 85 degrees, while botany comes second, and 
zoology third. 
