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resentative of the biology teachers on the Standing Committee on 
Science, which serves in a supervisory capacity for all high school 
science, I helped plan and work out a new method of selecting 
candidates for the license of first assistant (chairman of depart- 
ment) in the sciences. Further, in this connection, as chairman of 
the special Appraisal Committee for Biology, I have been engaged 
for the last two months of 1930 in visiting over twenty-five high 
schools to inspect the work of the thirty-four applicants for this 
license in biology. 
As chairman of the Program Committee of the Biology Teach- 
ers Association, I have arranged for six of the eight speakers on 
the current year’s program: Drs. McDougal, Rhoads, Merrill, 
Murphy, Snedden, and Melander. In June I was appointed 
a member of a new State Education Department committee to 
prepare a syllabus for General Biology, designed as a second year 
subject. Two articles have been prepared and accepted for pub- 
lication in School Science and Mathematics. One of these in- 
cludes a review of the American Journal of Botany as a source 
book for biology teachers. 
Beginning in September, I have been giving a course in “ Methods 
of Teaching Biology ” in the new Brooklyn College of the City of 
New York. For one session, the class met in the Botanic Garden 
Library with the assignment to look up (in the pre-Linnaean col- 
lection and elsewhere) some of the early reports of important 
discoveries in elementary biology. A number of the class have 
since been rather frequent in visiting the Garden, both for ma- 
terial and for reference work. One has become a Garden member. 
Editorial Work 
As one of the editors of the American Fern Journal, and a 
fern representative of the Garden, a large amount of corres oak 
ence has been taken care of. The fern Journal completed its 
twentieth volume with 1930, and celebrated by publishing an 
extra-sized volume, with articles from noted fern workers from 
widely separated regions. The Journal now has over 2800 pages 
in its twenty volumes. Its circulation and influence are continu- 
ously growing. 
Part of this correspondence has related to the installation of the 
