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The Annual Report of the director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Government Domains and Centennial Park, Sydney, N.S. W., for 
1916, received in our library in March, 1919, contains a notice of 
the exercises held at Sydney on June 13, 1916, in celebration of 
the centenary of the Botanic Gardens. Addresses were delivered 
by His Excellency the Governor and by Mr. J. H. Maiden, the 
director of the Botanic Garden; also by the Premier and the 
Minister of Agriculture. Three vistas in the Garden were named 
as follows: the Capt. Cook Vista, the Sir Joseph Banks Vista 
and the Cie Phillip Vista. The rose garden was formally 
named the Centenary Rosary, and memorial trees were planted 
by representatives of the Empire and the Allies. These trees 
formed part of the design to create the three vistas already re- 
ferred to. The foundation stone was laid for the proposed Mu- 
seum of Botany and Horticulture. 
The Garden Library has received the final Report of the Divi- 
sion of Advertising of the Committee of Public Information on 
their war advertising work. The second page reads as follows: 
“This copy is inscribed to American Journal of Botany, whose 
patriotic contribution of space or services has helped to win the 
war through advertising.” The report contains reproductions of 
the posters and advertising announcements used by the Depart- 
ment in its advertising, combined with a list of all publications, 
individuals or organizations contributing advertising space. 

Teaching Natural Science in Norway—From an article by H. 
P. Kjerskog-Agerzborg, in School and Society, June 7, 1919, we 
learn that the natural sciences, botany, geology, zoology, chem- 
istry, and physics, hold a much more prominent place in the pri- 
mary and secondary schools of Norway than in the grammar 
schools and high Schools of the United States. All students in 
the primary school and in the gymnasium study natural science. 
Botany, introduced in the fifth year, begins with dicotyledons 
and includes about twenty domestic forms. Then follow about 
nine monocotyledons which, like the former, are studied mostly 
from the systematic and economic point of view. This is fol- 
lowed by a brief introduction to the flowerless plants: ferns, 
mosses, algae, and fungi. Now follows a survey of useful 
