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excellent work in special horticnltural problems, were presented 

 to four bo3's. Pocket lenses were presented by Miss Shaw to 

 five girls and six boys for excellence in notebooks, and to one 

 boy for faithful service in the children's garden and other courses. 

 The money for the purchase of the lenses was donated, unso- 

 licited, by an anonymous friend of the Garden. On behalf of the 

 Boys and Girls Club, Everett Stceves presented to the director 

 a sum of money for the purchase of a new silk flag, and also for 

 the continued maintenance of the French war orphan. The Al- 

 fred T. White scholarship, of One Hundred Dollars, was awarded 

 to Miss Lillian Baker, a former president of the Club, who has 

 been in our children's classes for seven years. Miss Baker will 

 enter the New Rochclle College this fall. This scholarship was 

 awarded for the first time last year, the presentation at that time 

 being made by Mr. White in person. 



Prof. Arthur de Jaczewski and Prof. N. I. Vavilov, of Petro- 

 grad, Russia, visited Brooklyn on August 25. Professor Jac- 

 zewski is director of the Institute of Mycology and Phytopa- 

 thology of Russia, at Petrograd, and President of the Myco- 

 logical and Phytopathological Society of Russia, and of the 

 Russian Horticultural Society. Professor Vavilov, formerly 

 professor at Moscow, is editor-in-chief of the Russian Phyto- 

 pathological Society, and has recently been made director of the 

 Bureau of Applied Botany and Plant Breeding at Petrograd. 

 Both men are visiting the various botanical institutions of Eng- 

 land, France, Germany, and the United States in order to get 

 in touch with scientific work from which, they state, they have 

 been completely isolated for six years. Professor Vavilov visited 



zewski on November 7. 



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On July 2-^ Professor Broadhiirst and a class of fifty students 

 in nature study from Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 visited the Botanic Garden to inspect the children's gardens and 

 other phases of our public instruction. On August i the curator 

 of elementary instruction addressed this class at Teachers Col- 



