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used in illustrating lectures on the economic uses of plants and 
plant products. 
At the meeting of the New York Chapter of the National 
Nature Study Association, held at Teachers College, Columbia 
University, on Saturday, November 15, 1913, Miss Ellen Eddy 
Shaw, of the Garden staff, was elected President for the ensuing 
year. Other officers elected were Vice President, Miss Grace G. 
Lyman; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Charlotte Lee. 
The popularity of the Garden Leaflets, to which we have 
already called attention in a previous number of the REcorpD, has 
greatly increased since we have been enabled to illustrate them 
and enlarge them by the generous gift of Mr. Alfred T. White. 
Fifty copies of numbers 12 and 13 were sent by request for use of 
the pupils at the City Training School, Jamaica, L. I., and fifty 
copies of number 12 were requested for use with a local company 
of Boy Scouts. Almost daily requests continue to be received by 
the Garden for the regular receipt of the Leaflets as issued. 
On August 23, 1913, Miss Helen J. Aitken, assistant curator, 
department of mollusks, at the Central Museum, placed in the 
Garden brook several snails of the species Goniobasis virgimicum 
Gmelin and Campeloma decisum Say. These specimens were 
collected in the Morris Canal at Great Notch, New Jersey, on 
August 21, 1913. It is a wish of the Garden to make the brook 
as interesting for its fauna as for its flora, and we will be glad 
to have it stocked with specimens of small aquatic animals, which 
might be of zoological interest. 
The first course of instruction offered to the public in the new 
building was for adults, on Indoor Plant Culture, with five ses- 
sions, conducted by Miss Shaw on successive Wednesday after- 
noons, beginning October 22. The topics covered were bulbs, 
house plants, window boxes, methods of propagation, and green- 
house work. A syllabus of the topic to be discussed was distrib- 
uted at each session. Forty-six persons registered for the course. 
Cooperation with local high schools began last October, when 
four lessons on the planting of bulbs were given by Miss Shaw to 
two different classes from the Girls’ High School. One class was 
composed of fourteen pupils in the botany course for commercial 
