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Association of Biology Teachers, the following speakers were 
secured for the year of 1931-32: Dr. L. T. Hopkins, Henry C. 
Sherman, C. C. Little, F. E. Denny, A. F. Kroeber, and W. M. 
Smallwood. In addition, the arrangements were instituted 
which lead to a special joint meeting of the Biology Teachers 
Association and the Torrey Botanical Club at the New York 
Botanical Garden in December. A series of talks were given 
which reached a large number of high school teachers and pupils, 
those relating to the special Botanic Garden high school program 
and at the American Museum of Natural History being specific- 
ally noted in this connection. 
A new State Syllabus in General Biology was completed by a 
committee of which I was a member. The year course in 
Methods of Teaching Biology given in the Brooklyn Extension 
Department of Hunter College (later Brooklyn College) was 
completed, with some further use of the facilities of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden. Some publications along science education 
lines are noted under another heading. Under my new appoint- 
ment as Associate Professor in the Department of Biology of 
Brooklyn College, which began last September, I hope to be able 
to make still more use of the facilities of the Botanic Garden than 
heretofore in connection with high school work. 
Editorial Work 
During 1931, the 21st volume of the American Fern Journal 
was issued, together with a special supplement describing the 
project for greater use of both the Botanic Garden and the Amer- 
lican Fern Society fern libraries. This supplement, which in- 
cluded the statement of Agreement between the Botanic Garden 
and the American Fern Society, published also the lists of fern 
titles in both libraries. Through the use of the loan privileges 
offered by the Garden, the Editors of the Fern Journal hope to 
promote considerably the informed study of American ferns, 
and through this measure to increase both the quality and the 
extent of the Fern Journal contributions. 
Conservation of Native Plants 
Continuance of this work has been accomplished through cor- 
respondence, through the distribution of special literature, the 
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