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educated, kindly, sympathetic man or woman who knows animals 
and plants; who knows the specimens in the museum and the 
live things in the park about it; and who, above all, knows and 
loves children; a man or woman who can wisely direct the ob- 
servation and the reading of the children so that they may cor- 
relate their reading with what they have seen in the museum or 
in the open, and thus increase rather than stifle their interest in, 
and love for, animate things, as our public schools almost in- 
variably do. It will be arranged so that children of the dif- 
ferent grades will come to this room at different hours, and re- 
ceive the instruction and help and encouragement adapted to 
the right thing to do, the right sort of education and training to 
their respective needs. 
“ And all this will be done and done soon, I confidently believe. 
It will be done because it so evidently appeals to us all as being 
give our children.” Evermann, B. W. Science, N. S. 44: 602. 
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Graduation of Garden Teachers—On Saturday afternoon, De- 
cember 9, 1916, Certificates in Children’s Gardening were con- 
ferred on a class of thirteen women who have completed our 
year’s course for the preparation of teachers of children’s garden- 
ing. An address on “The Larger Setting of Nature Study ” was 
given by Dr. Thomas Balliet, Dean of the School of Pedagogy of 
New York University. After the conferring of certificates, the 
class of 1916, represented by Miss Maud E. Snedeker, presented 
the Garden with a beautiful bird bath for the children’s gardens. 
The gift was accepted by Mr. Alfred T. White, chairman of the 
Botanic Garden Governing Committee of the board of trustees. 
At the close of the formal exercises tea was served by the Gar- 
den Teachers’ Association of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
The members of the class are as follows: Agnes Tisdale Dexter, 
Florence Elizabeth Diehl, Grace Fahlberg, Anna Marie Gissel, 
Adelaide B. Harrison, Theodora Hay, Maude Laura Hickok, 
Ethelwyn F. Humphrey, M. Christine Lietz, Alma Hazelton Ray- 
mond, Helen Seaman, Minna R. Streich, Ethel I. Wall. 
_ Gift of woody plants—On December 5 we received from Mr. 
Henry Hicks, of Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, L. I., the largest 
