the nation at all times and under all circumstances, in peace as 
well as in war. 
Two writers in a late number of Science,* discussing the recent 
debate in the House of Lords between Lord Haldane (pro) and 
Lord Cromer and Viscount Bryce (cow) on the extension of SCi- 
ence teaching, and the place of science in education, call atten- 
tion to the fact that “science is finding out and learning how,” 
and is not to be thought of in terms of its results. Any system 
of education that does not provide ample opportunity for training 
in finding out and knowing how is fundamentally faulty. It is 
the duty of every state, of every city, to see that its educational 
system makes suitable provision for this kind of discipline. 
Such opportunities, within the realm of botanical science, are 
afforded at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden by our own classes, 
taught by members of the Garden staff, by lectures and nature 
stories for adults and children, and by opportunities afforded 
here for teachers of the public and private schools of Brooklyn to 
bring their pupils for a first hand study of plants in field, con- 
servatory, and laboratory. When a boy comes to the Botanic 
Garden regularly every Saturday for a year or more, clear from 
Staten Island, a round trip journey consuming from three to three 
and a half hours, one may be sure that what he receives here 
partakes of the nature of fascination, and possesses unmeasure: 
importance in the making of his character and in his preparation 
for a useful career. This is only one illuustration of many that 
might be given, of how our work is appealing to an increasingly 
large number of young people. 
As a result of the present international situation there is now 
a widespread movement to bring all available land, especially in 
cities, under cultivation. This phase of preparedness was in- 
augurated in Brooklyn by the Botanic Garden some three years 
ago by the starting of back yard gardens, and the distribution of 
penny packets of seed, During the past three years we have 
distributed over 311,000 penny packets of seeds to the children 
of Brooklyn, and have inaugurated and inspected from 1,200 to 
1,400 back yard gardens. With the more ample quarters made 
* Science, N. S., 44: 841-844. 15 Dec., 1916. 
