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pleasant hour with pictures. Specimen syllabi are given on 
pages 259-264. 
4. Consultation and Conferences with Teachers 
The Botanic Garden encourages teachers of Nature Study, 
Botany, and related subjects to confer with members of staff con- 
cerning subject matter, method, collateral reading, and all other 
problems growing out of the daily work in the classroom. The 
extent to which teachers avail themselves of this opportunity in- 
creases and is very gratifying. During 1928, for example, over 
1000 teachers held conferences with various members of staff con- 
cerning problems affecting 49,600 pupils. 
b. At the Schools (Cf. a, p. 200) 
1. Lectures, commencement addresses, and talks to mothers 
clubs, and students’ and teachers’ organizations are a regular part 
of the service which the Garden renders to the schools. During 
1928 the number given was 115. 
2. Model lessons have been given by special request of 
teachers in the Public Schools. Classes from City Training 
Schools, University Summer Schools, and other institutions also 
visit the Botanic Garden to observe our work with classes. 
3. Loan lectures, including lantern slides and lecture text, 
are available on the following subjects. Plans are matured for 
extending this service whenever the necessary funds become avail- 
able. Pupils call for and return the lantern slides. 
1. Plant Life 4, Fall Wild Flowers 
2. Spring Wild Flowers 5. Forestry (2 Sets) 
3. Common Trees 
4. The Supply of Study Material is one of the most valued 
of our services to the schools. Ina large city of the size of New 
York it is much more difficult to secure living plant material than 
in’ small cities; the country is less readily accessible, and yet the 
quantity required is greater on account of the larger number of 
pupils. The Botanic Garden Brook and Lake yield Spirogyra, 
Elodea and other forms of aquatic life (Protozoa, as well as micro- 
scopic plants), the Conservatories afford fern prothallia and other 
