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C; these prizes are large silver cups. Second prizes in A, B, and 
C are small silver cups. These cups remain the permanent prop- 
erty of the winners. As usual the individual first prizes are silver 
medals, the second prizes bronze medals, and honorable mention 
in all classes is a certificate. 
The Teachers-Garden Association of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden presents each year a cup to the boy or girl who. has been 
registered in the Garden more than one year, and who has done 
work of superior excellence. This year the cup was won by 
Gladys Bergman. 
ELLEN Eppy SHAW 
NOTES 
Professor Ralph W. Curtis and Mr. C. E. Hunn, of the depart- 
ment of landscape art of Cornell University, visited the Garden 
September 30. 
Professors J. B. S. Norton, state pathologist, and W. R. Bal- 
lard, pomologist, from the Maryland Experiment Station, visited 
the Garden September 27. 
Professor George E. Stone, botanist of the Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, who has been spending some time 
in study at the New York Botanical Garden, visited the Garden 
August 21, 
Mr. Wilson Popenoe, agricultural explorer of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, came to the 
Garden on August 24 to consult concerning the collecting of ferns 
of the Boston fern group, during an exploring trip which he is 
about to undertake to Central America. He sailed on August 25. 
Mr. John Ellis, gardener, resigned on June 30 to accept the 
position of head gardener of the department of botany and plant 
pathology at the Pennsylvania State College. 
Miss Charlotte Elliott acted as research assistant in the Garden 
laboratory during August and September. Miss Elliott’s aca- 
demic record is as follows: Leland Stanford, Jr. University, A.B., 
