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Federated Garden Clubs of Long Island.- — -Delegates from 

 eleven of the twelve garden clubs and garden committees of 

 women's clubs on Long Island met at the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden on Friday afternoon, April 27, under the temporary 

 chairmanship of Mrs. John W. Paris, President of the Flushing 

 Garden Club, Inc. Mrs. Richard A. Foster, chairman of the 

 Park-Garden Committee of the Jackson Heights-Elmhurst 

 Women's Club, was made secretary of the meeting. The object 

 of the meeting was the formation of a Federation of the Garden 

 Clubs of Long Island. After brief introductory remarks and 

 welcome by the director of the Botanic Garden, reports were 

 received from the delegates, and the Federation was formally 

 organized by the adoption of plan of federation and the election 

 of the following officers for one year : President, Mrs. John W. 

 Paris; Secretary, Miss Hilda Loines, Chairman of the Woman's 

 Auxiliary of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Members of the 

 Auxiliary acted as hostesses and after the meeting adjourned the 

 delegates attended the last of the public spring lectures of the 

 Botanic Garden, on " What's new in the garden," by Mr. Edward 

 I. Farrington, editor of Horticulture, Boston, Mass. The Spring 

 (1923) number of The Garden Bulletin, of the Flushing Garden 

 Club contains an article by Dr. Gager on " A Long Island Federa- 

 tion of Garden Clubs," in which there are noted some of the 

 advantages of such a federation. 



Arbor Day. — On the afternoon of April 27 the auditorium 

 was nearly rilled with an audience of about 550 public school 

 pupils for a program, including motion pictures, in recognition of 

 Arbor Day. 



The Evolution Film. — On the afternoons of Friday, April 6, 

 and Sunday, April 8, 1923, occurred the first showing in Brooklyn 

 of the new motion picture film, " Evolution, from the Birth of 

 Planets to the Age of Man." This film, produced by Dr. Ray- 

 mond L. Ditmars, and edited by Dr. Benjamin C. Gruenberg, 

 aims to depict the method of formation of planetary bodies, and 

 the development of plant and animal life on the earth. The film 

 was shown at 2.30 o'clock on Friday to a capacity audience (about 



