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ophy at Yale in 1907. From 190 



1914 Dr. Graves was 



successively assistant in botany in Sheffield Scientific School and 

 the School of Forestry, and in Yale College, resigning the as- 

 sistant professorship of botany at Yale in 1914 to do advanced 

 work in the University of London (1914-15). From 1916 to 

 1917 he was professor of biology in the Connecticut College for 

 Women, and since 1918 he has been pathologist and collaborator. 

 Office of Investigations in Forest Pathology, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. Dr. Graves is a member of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, Botanical Society of 

 America, American Phytopathological Society, and the New Eng- 

 land and the Connecticut Botanical Societies. He is at present 

 engaged in a study of disease resistance in the American chest- 

 nut, with special reference to the chestnut bark canker which, 

 starting near New York City about 1893, has nearly exterminated 

 the chestnut tree in the eastern United States. 



Assistant Curator of . Elementary Instruction. — Miss Elsie 

 Hammond became assistant curator of elementary instruction on 

 September i, 1921, in place of Miss Elizabeth Elmer, acting as- 

 sistant curator, resigned. Miss Hammond graduated from Vas- 

 sar in 1902, with the degree of A.B., and received the degree of 

 M.A. from Columbia University in 1905. 

 following schools: Detroit Seminary (1906-08) ; Stuart Hall, 

 Staunton, Va. (1910-11) ; Ossining School for Girls, Ossining,. 

 N. Y. (1911-16); Kemper Hall, Keinosha, Wis. (1916-17) ; 

 Brooklyn Heights Seminary, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1917-19). In- 

 1920 Miss Hammond completed the course for teachers o£' 

 children's gardening at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



She has taught in the 



NATURE STUDY OF TODAY ^ 



r 



The two important questions we teachers of nature study 

 should ask ourselves are: (i) Why nature study does not hold 

 the important place in education we feel it should occupy; and 

 (2) What we must do to place it where it belongs. 



* Address delivered on November 20, 1920, at the Exercises in connec- 

 tion v^ith the awarding" of Certificates in Childr'en's Gardenings at the 

 Brookly.? Botanic Garden. 



