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for the first five months for 1924 and i()2~f was as follows, in 

 even thousands : 



1934 1925 



January 17,000 12,000 



February 14,000 20,000 



Marcli 26,000 41,000 



April 39,000 66,000 



May 73,000 73,371 



June 56,000 



Sunday attendance has also .qreatly increased. High points 

 were, ^NTarch 22, 6,437; April 12 (Easter"), 7,531 ; April 26, 7,299; 



^^^y 3- 9'35o; May 17, 9,600. 



Staff Conferences. — The last of the monthly conferences and 

 teas of the Garden Staff, which have continued since October, 

 1924, was held on April 13. 



Botanic Garden Trips a Jlii^h ScJiool Kccjuironcnt. — " In 

 Stuyvesant High School the pupils in Biology i (mainly plant 

 study) arc all required to take a trip to the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. . . . Such a trip lacks the natural appeal of an outdoor 

 hike, hut combines the interest of a witle range of material with 

 the convenience of easy transit. Since one teacher takes care of 

 all the boys, with Saturday and Siniday tri])s when necessary, for 

 the convenience of the boys who may work, and since the num- 

 ber of bovs taking the work has in some terms made seven sepa- 

 rate trips necessary, it is obvious that so many outdoor hikes are 

 out of the question as a required part of the work. These Bo- 

 tanic Garden trips are required, and their importance enforced 

 bv (I ) demerits for failure to attend. (2) additional demerits for 

 failure to hand in a carefully and full\- written report, and (3) 

 by a ([uestion in mid-term or final examinations based on the trip. 

 Attendance is usually over ninety-five per cent. Encouragement 

 is given for trips made by the pupils on their own initiative by 

 extra credits in the regular course marks." {Quoted from Bul- 

 letin of JIii:;li Points of the XccC )'ork City Board of Education.) 



Post Card Jhdlctins. — Beginning in March, 1925, a series of 

 Post Card Bulletins to members was inaugurated. These call at- 

 tention to flowering and other features that may be seen to best 



