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3rooklyn Bureau of Charities —On the evening of October 14 
the Family Service Department of the Bureau held exercises at 
the Garden for the awarding of prizes for gardens conducted by 
the unemployed under the auspices of the Bureau. Miss Jenkins, 
of our department of elementary instruction, visited about 40 of 
these gardens as judge. Ribbons for first and second prizes were 
awarded by our Woman’s Auxiliary, and the Botanic Garden gave 
a potted fern to each contestant. These ferns were raised in our 
educational greenhouses. The Brooklyn Branch of the Plant, 
Flower, and Fruit Guild has also cooperated and furnished one 
of the judges. 
Federated Garden Clubs of Ohio—In May the Garden loaned 
to the Federated Garden Clubs of Ohio a number of our water- 
colors and prints of Japanese Iris for an exhibition, held at Clos- 
son's Galleries, Cincinnati. There was an account of this in the 
Cincinnati Inquirer of May 29. 
New York Association of Biology Teachers—On the evening 
of November 14 a special exhibit of educational material and 
demonstrations of research work in progress was held in the Lab- 
oratory Building, in cooperation with the Biology Teachers As- 
sociation and the Torrey Botanical Club. In connection with the 
exhibit an address was given by the director on “ The Founda- 
tional Literature of Botany,” illustrated with incunabula, pre- 
Linnaean books, and other early or epoch-making works, from 
the Garden library. 
Department of Botany of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts end 
Sciences—The annual fall meeting of this organization, under the 
presidency of Dr. George C. Wood, was held at the Laboratory 
suilding on the evening of October 18. An illustrated address 
was given by Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, director, New York Botanical 
Garden, on the subject, “ The Origin of Cultivated Plants in Their 
Relation to the Origin of Civilization.” 
Third International Congress of fugenites—The Garden par- 
ticipated in the large educational exhibit held at the American 
Museum of Natural History during the period of this Congress, 
and continued from August 22 to September 22, . 
