THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
RECORD 
VoL. VIII July, 1919 No. 3 


EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOLOGY IN NEW 
VWORTSCILY HIGH SCHOOLS 
An Educational Conference on Biology in the New York City 
High Schools was held under the auspices of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden at the Laboratory Building, on Friday evening, 
April 4, 1919, Dr. C. Stuart Gager, director of the Botanic Gar- 
den, presiding. The meeting was the outcome of a symposium 
and conference on botanical education in secondary schools on 
March 11, under the auspices of the Torrey Botanical Club at 
the American Museum of Natural History. The conference was 
composed of members of the faculties of Columbia University, 
Barnard College, Brooklyn Training School, The Lincoln School 
of Teachers’ College, and the scientific staffs of New York 
Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The speakers 
of the evening included Dr. R. A. Rexford, representing Dr. John 
L. Tildsley, Associate Superintendent of Schools, in charge of 
high schools in New York City, Principals Bogart of Morris 
High School (Bronx), Janes of Boys’ High School (Brooklyn), 
Low of Erasmus Hall High School (Brooklyn), and Zabriskie 
of Washington Irving High School (Manhattan), Principal Den- 
bigh of Packer Collegiate Institute (Brooklyn), Dr. Edward A. 
Bedford, Teacher of Biology in Stuyvesant High School (Man- 
hattan), in charge of a class in method in general science at 
Hunter College, Dr. George C. Wood, President, New York As- 
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