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lege on the subject, "The basis nature study should provide for 

 high school biology." During July other classes visited the Gar- 

 den from Columbia University and Hunter College. 



The death of the noted naturalist and author, John Burroughs, 

 last March 29, removed for the second time by death an honorary 

 member of the Boys and Girls Club. A handwritten autographed 

 letter by Mr. Burroughs, under date of May 14, 1919, accepting 

 this honorary membership, is one of the treasures of the Club. 



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Miss Matilda Holmgren, principal of one of the schools in 

 Malmo, Sweden, visited the Garden on August ii to inspect the 

 work in elementary education. Prof. J. Andrew Drushel, president 



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ford. Director of the St. Louis Section of the Society, and prin- 

 cipal of one of the St. Louis schools, also visited the Garden on 



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the same day. 



Recent visitors to the Garden include Prof. Kingo Miyabe, 

 professor of botany and director of the botanic warden, Tohoku 

 Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan; and Dr. O. E. Jennings, 

 professor of botany, University of Pittsburgh, and curator, Car- 

 negie IMuseum, Pittsburdi, Pa. 



Children's Garden Exhibit.^The Eighth Annual Children's 

 Garden Exhibit was held in the laboratory building on Friday 

 and Saturday, September 23 and 24, 1921. The exhibit shows 

 a noticeable improvement in quality from year to year. This 

 year vegetables preponderated sh'ghtly over flowers. The trophy 

 for the best school exhibit was won this year, for the third year 

 in succession, by P. S. 89, which, therefore, becomes the pcrma- 

 nent possessor of the trophy, a bronze tablet, an illustration of 

 which appeared in the Rfxord for April, 1919. The attendance 

 was 1,379. 



At the " Flower Show," held by the New York Association of 

 Biology Teachers at the American Museum of Natural History 



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