Children’s Room 
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A gift of $1,500 in 1921 from Mrs. Helen Sherman Pratt, 
supplemented in 1923 by a further gift of $500 from Mr. George 
D. Pratt, has made it possible to provide a beautifully decorated 
room for the use of the Boys’ and Girls’ Club. The room contains 
a nature-study library, and is equipped with stereoscopic views, 
photographs, and preserved and living specimens of plant life, for 
the instruction and entertainment of bovs and girls. The room is 
open tree to all children. Contributions of specimens and of books 
on nature study and closely related subjects will be most welcome. 
Children’s Garden 
A plot of about three-quarters of an acre in the southeast part 
of the Botanic Garden is devoted to the theoretical and practical 
arger part of this area 
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instruction of children in gardening. The 
is laid out in garden plots which will accommodate about 200 
children. At the south end is a Shakespeare Garden, given by 
Mrs. Henry W. Folger. 

Children’s Building 
This is located in the northern part of the Children’s Garden 
plot and contains a conference room, and rooms for the storage of 
garden tools and implements. The furniture in the conference 
room was a gift from Mrs. James H. Post. A garden library, a 
eift of friends, has been added. North of the Children’s Build- 
ing is a plot planted to ornamental shrubs and herbaceous  per- 
ennials for the instruction of the children. 
Non-Botanical Educational Features 
Meridian Panel—In 1931 there was placed in the paved walk 
in front of the main west entrance to the Laboratory Building a 
Terrestrial Position Panel, briefly referred to as the ‘‘ Meridian 
Jeloian marble terrazzo, is 21 feet, 
Banely Whig panel, ot black 
2 inches long, and 5 feet wide. It contains a brass strip, 20 feet 
meridian, the 
long and ws inch wide, laid along the geographica 
location of which was accurately determined by Mr. Weld Arnold, 
then of the School of Surveying of the American Geographical 
of Geography, Harvard University. 
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