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a series of sixteen “ Workshop Courses” during the spring of 
1939. Two of these courses were given at the Botanic Garden 
by members of the teaching staff of the Garden, as follows: 
Course X, Nature study for camp counselors, by Miss [lsie Ham- 
mond; Course XI, Garden work for camp counselors, by Miss 
Frances Miner. 
The American Museum of Natural History, through its Lab- 
oratory of Experimental Biology, has been checking up on frog 
colonies in New York City and vicinity, and a special permit was 
issued in May to their curator, Dr. G. K. Noble, to enter the Bo- 
tanic Garden grounds after dark for the purpose of making ob- 
servations on the amphibian colony in the Botanic Garden Lake, 
which includes the bull frog (Rana catesbiana) and Fowler’s toad 
(Bufo fowlert). 
The VY. W.C. A. sponsored “ The World in Flower Arrange- 
ment ” in their Central Branch Building on May 2. The Woman's 
Auxihary of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was one of several 
cooperating organizations. The purpose of the Flower Show was 
not to raise money but to promote an interest in flowers. The 
Garden supphed forty living plants to be used for an Italian 
decorated pushcart. 
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SPRING INSPECTION 
The annual Spring Inspection for officials, members, and their 
friends was held, as always, on the second Tuesday in May, which 
fell on the ninth. The weather was favorable, and the Japanese 
flowering cherries were at their height of bloom. The following 
exhibits were on view in the Laboratory Building: 1. Thirty paint- 
ings in tempora colors, by Mrs. Amelia Johnson, of Plainfield, 
New Jersey; 2. Thirty paintings of garden flowers and wild flow- 
ers, by Mrs. J. Ralston Cargill, of Columbus, Georgia; 3. Provost- 
fleurage, ten designs in color, made of pressed Larkspurs, by 
Miss Eva Marian Provost, of Winter Park, Florida; 4. Full size 
plaster model from which the carved panels of the columns at the 
North Terminal of the Horticultural Section were made, showing 
foliation and fruits of the Ginkgo; 5. Proposed Gate at Eastern 
Parkway: Perspective in color by the architects, McKim, Mead 
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