Model Lessons at Schools 



The curator of elementary instruction, in her appended report, 



calls attention to the fact that, for the second consecutive year a 



request was received from one of the Puhlic Schools (P. S. 36, 



I'rooklyn) to have model lessons in Xature Study given in the 

 presence of tin- o-gular teachers. This year, seven classes totaling 

 ;,i«) pupils were instructed at oner. eight lessons being given in all. 



Cooperation 



Xitcses rranmu/ S\ liool.- I >y arrangement with Miss Margare: 

 S. Bel yea, director of nursing, Prospect Heights .Hospital and 

 Brooklyn Maternity, a series of field lessons was arranged with 

 the nurses training class of that hospital. The first meeting was 

 on May 1 X. The instruction included those aspects of plant life- 

 related to the work of nurses, such as the life history and phys- 

 iology of plants, the identification of officinal plants 111 the held, 

 the use and care of potted plants and cut flowers in the sick room. 

 and other topics. The course consisted of conferences, demon- 

 strations, and field trips. This is an entirely new line of interest 

 in hotanical instruction. So successful was this first year's course 

 that plans have keen made for its continuance and it has keen in- 

 cluded as one of the regular courses announced in our Prospectus 

 for 1927-8. 



Urook'lyn Home lor < onsu m plires. - For several years tin- 

 Harden has supplied seeds and gardening advice to this J Tome for 

 the gardens of the child patients. The cooperation was continued 

 for 1927. One of our instructors usually goes to the Home to 

 assist the children in planting. 



High School of Commerce. .1/ anlnillun — In < >ctoher this scho, 

 kegan the organization of a Commercial Museum, and also, as a 

 part of its twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration H kvtober 2.4 29). 

 planned a special exposition to show the progress that has taken 

 place in commercial and industrial fields during the past 25 years. 

 As a loan, the Harden sent specimens of various varieties of corn 

 (such as sweet, pop, flint, and dent), and as gifts, dried specimens 

 of whole plants of wheat, oat. barley, rye, sorghum, broom-corn. 

 and millet. This material was all a by-product of our research. 

 work. The exhibit was viewed by about 6,500 persons. 



