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The following running account of my personal activities in 
this work during the past year, carried on in addition to my 
other duties at the Garden, will best indicate our methods of co- 
operation in this important movement. Two holiday hikes, on 
February 12 and May 30, were given to the scouts of troop 50, 
of which I at that time served as scoutmaster. On the former 
date the party, including 12 boys, spent the day in the woods at 
Rosedale, L. I. Six scout tests were passed. On the latter date, 
14 boys accompanied me to Van Cortlandt Park, where the entire 
day was spent in the beautiful open country along the aqueduct. 
There, in the natural state, we studied a great variety of trees, 
shrubs, and flowers. Eight scout tests were passed. 
On June 10, in a scoutmasters’ hike to the camp of Ernest 
Thompson-Seton, at Greenwich, Conn., I conducted a field trip of 
two hours for the study of trees, accompanied by 15 Brooklyn 
scoutmasters and officials, who showed keen interest in the subject. 
On July 4, ten members of the Inkowa Club were instructed in 
trees and shrubs in Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. To this club of men and women I had given in Feb- 
ruary and March, at the American Museum of Natural History, 
in Manhattan, a course of four lectures on identification of our 
common trees. There was an approximate aggregate attendance 
of 100 members. 
On July 7-9 I visited Camp Midwout, near Tuxedo, N. Y. 
This is the Boy Scout Camp of Flatbush District, Brooklyn. 
There were at the time 55 boys in camp. We had two field 
trips for the study of trees and shrubs. Fourteen boys passed 
first-class test No. 10, in nature study and stars. 
July 18-21, under the auspices of the Woodcraft League of 
New York City, I visited a chain of four camps in northern Con- 
necticut and eastern New York, viz., Camp Pootatuck, South 
Kent, Conn.; Bridgeport Y. M. C. A.; Camp Kowannun at Twin 
Lakes, Conn.; Stamford Y. M. C. A.; Camp Wa Wa Segowea, 
Ancram, N. Y.; Poughkeepsie Y. M. C. A.; and Camp Wake 
Robin, a private camp at Woodland, N.Y. Two talks were given 
at each camp, and about 400 altogether attended. 
I spent my vacation in my own camp, Camp Alsacia, Layton, 
Sussex Co., N. J., where three first class scouts spent the month 
