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the Prospectus from year to year, had not been given for many 
years. Upon request of the sponsors of the “ University of 
30yology,” organized under the sponsorship of the Boys Welfare 
Ioundation of Brooklyn, we gave a course in “nature study ’— 
consisting for the most part of the characteristics of the different 
kinds of woody plants in the Garden, but including in addition 
some birds, the glacial features of the Garden, labelled boulders, 
the armillary sphere, meridian panel, etc. About half of those 
who enrolled were boy scouts—the rest being scout leaders. [Five 
exercises were held, all in the Botanic Garden, on Saturday after- 
noons, beginning March 23. I gave the first 3 exercises: the last 
two—April 13 and 27—were conducted by Miss Hammond and 
Mr. Doney, respectively, because the times conflicted with our reg- 
ular Saturday afternoon class in Trees and Shrubs (A9 and B13— 
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CoursE For STUDENT NURSES 
The course for nurses-in-training was given as usual in the 
spring and fall—l0 exercises of 214 hours each for each term. 
The young women came as usual from three hospitals: Kings 
County, Prospect Heights, and St. Johns—39 students in all in 
the spring and 84 in the fall. This course was first given in the 
spring of 1927 at the suggestion of Miss Margaret S. Belyea, then 
director of nursing at the Prospect Heights Hospital, but now at 
Shepherd Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland, and Miss Mary FE. 
Corcoran, then instructor of nurses at the same institution, but 
now of Greystone, N. J. The course has now been given, there- 
fore, for nine consecutive years, and has been described, as a novel 
educational experiment, in the American Journal of Nursing. 
Originally a course in elementary botany with regular field trips 
each week, it has become more and more adapted each year to 
meet the special needs of the students. As now conducted, more 
than 50 medicinal plants are studied in the living condition on the 
grounds or in the conservatories; and in the laboratory those sub- 
jects are studied which are related in some way to materia medica, 
to dietetics, or to diseases. Incidentally, the interconnections and 
interrelationships of the plant and animal kingdoms are discussed. 
Following is a general outline of the course as at present given. 
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