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lyn, as well in fact as affecting the teaching of nature study and 
gardening throughout the entire city. Many teachers have ex- 
pressed their high appreciation of the help the Garden is thus ren- 
dering the schools. 
The detailed report of Miss Shaw as curator of elementary in- 
struction is appended below. 
I have also appended a brief summary of the work of Mr. 
Frank Stoll with Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and similar organi- 
zations. With the further development of this plan, there is 
scarcely any limit to the good work in nature study, elementary 
forestry, gardening and agriculture which the Garden might be 
able to do. 
Cooperation with Local Schools 
Talks at Schools —Our records show 68 talks and lectures by 
various members of the staff, given at schools, both public and 
private, with a total attendance of over 18,000. 
chool Classes at the Garden.—During the year, 157 classes, 
mostly from elementary schools, visited the Garden, all of them 
receiving special guidance and instruction in their trips through 
the conservatories and plantations. In addition, nearly all of 
these classes had a lantern talk on a subject chosen by the teacher, 
from lists prepared by Miss Shaw, both for spring and fall lec- 
tures. Our limited space often made it necessary to divide the 
large classes and to repeat the lecture once or even twice. In 
this way, at least 300 special lectures to these visiting classes have 
been given. 
As heretofore, several of the high schools and colleges availed 
themselves of the opportunity to utilize the Garden in various 
ways. During the Teachers’ Institute which preceded the open- 
ing of the schools to pupils, many groups of teachers came to the 
Garden to learn of our work and to study various features of it. 
Among the institutions which thus availed themselves of the op- 
portunity were the Brooklyn Teachers’ Training School, Eras- 
mus Hall High School, and Boys’ High School. About 75 dele- 
gates, one from each school in Miss Strachan’s districts, Nos. 33 
and 35, came for a two-hour lesson on nature study every day 
during the duration of the Teachers’ Institute. 
