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High School Classes at the Garden—The double session plan, 
in operation at the Bushwick high school annex (at public school 
75, Brooklyn), has made it possible for the biology classes at 
that school to avail themselves of some of the work offered the 
past fall and this winter at the Botanic Garden. Over 4o pupils, 
boys and girls, are registered for our course in plant propaga- 
tion, involving laboratory work in the plant house. The course 
extends over six weeks, meeting once each week from 2:30 to 
3:30 p.m. Three classes in this course were organized, as the 
number in each class is limited to fifteen, this being all that can 
be accommodated at one time in the plant house. At the close of 
this work 45 pupils from Bushwick registered for a second six 
weeks’ course in the study of trees and shrubs. A certificate is 
awarded for the satisfactory completion of this course. Follow- 
ing this a third course is planned for the study of commercial 
lumber. 
The instructor of these pupils at the high school, Dr. Ralph 
Curtiss Benedict, reports that the work at the Garden has re- 
sulted in marked improvement in the class work in biology at the 
school. The enthusiasm and interest aroused in the boys has 
expressed itself in the formation by them of a tree study class. 
Children’s Work at the Museum of the California Academy of 
Sciences.—“ It is my ambition that there shall be in this museum 
[of the California Academy of Science] a Children’s Room—a 
room in which will be displayed natural history objects such as 
are particularly attractive to little children. There would be in 
this room brightly and curiously colored birds and butterflies, 
moths and beetles and other insects; curious animals of other 
groups ; attractive minerals, growing plants, and aquariums with 
interesting and instructive animal and plant life; colored trans- 
parencies of beautiful native flowers, all selected and arranged 
with reference to the telling of an interesting story, of teaching 
a definite lesson. 
“And there will be in this children’s room a children’s reading 
room in which will be found a library of all the interesting and 
reliable nature books and helps to nature study. 
“And there will be in charge of this children’s room a well- 
