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work done for these buttons covered a period of one year. Com- 
mon trees of Brooklyn was the subject of their study, covering a 
knowledge of the trees in bud, flower, fruit, and winter appear- 
ance. Twig mounts, leaf prints, and other concrete material was 
brought in to illustrate their talks. Each boy and girl receiving 
a silver button must give a talk on his subject before the club, 
and bring to it any illustrative material he has collected. 
Dr. Frank N. Meyer, who discovered the home of the chestnut 
bark disease, was drowned in the Yang-tze river, China, on June 
1, 1918. As an agricultural explorer for the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, Dr. Meyer had travelled extensively for ten years 
in China, Siberia, Persia, Thibet, and Turkestan, and many new 
species and varieties of economic plants have been introduced 
into cultivation in the United States as a result of his explora- 
tions. He had walked and explored from Holland to Italy, and 
also across central Mexico. For eight years previous to coming 
to the United States (1900) he was gardener to Prof. Hugo 
deVries, in Amsterdam. 
Dr. F. T. Sun, president of the School of Fisheries, Tientsin, 
China, Mr. Yan-Hsiu and Mr. Fan Yuan Lien, of the Chinese 
Bureau of Education, and Mr. Tse-chien Tai, librarian of the 
Tsing Hua college library, Pekin, visited the Garden on August 31 
to inspect our educational and scientific work. Mr. Yen-Hsiu 
and Mr. Fan Yuan Lien are especially interested in elementary 
agricultural education, and were particularly interested in our 
children’s gardens and related work. 
Dr. Jean Broadhurst, Professor of Biology and Nature Study 
at Teachers College, visited the Botanic Garden August 2 with 
one of her summer school classes. The class consisted of 35 
members who came for the purpose of seeing our garden, and for 
a discussion of the methods employed in our children’s work. 
While the Curator of Elementary Instruction took this class, Dr. 
Broadhurst spoke to the students of our own summer school on 
“ How high school botany affects every day living.” 
Mr. Kilpatrick, the Supervisor of Children’s Garden work 
under the City Board of Education, and his teachers visited the 

