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by other members of the staff of the Garden.* These courses 
include three for children in children’s gardens and nature study ; 
six in household botany and horticulture; one in elementary sys- 
tematic botany; nine in a course for the training of teachers of 
school gardening; and ten in advanced botany and investigation, 
making twenty-nine courses in all. 
With a view to ascertaining the best methods of serving the 
local schools, Miss Shaw made a number of visits to neighboring 
schools for conferences with the principals and others on methods 
of cooperation; while various members of the staff have been 
often called in consultation with high school teachers, boy scouts 
and their officers, the local officers of the National Plant, Flower 
and Fruit Guild, and others. We have been called upon a number 
of times to serve as judges in Children’s Farm Garden contests, 
in flower and vegetable exhibits and as examiners in Boy Scout 
examinations. 
On September 16 and 24, at the request of Mr. Willis B. 
Holcombe, executive secretary and commissioner of the Brooklyn 
Council of the Boy Scouts of America, conferences were held at 
the Garden between Mr. Holcombe, the curator of public instruc- 
tion, the curator of plants, the instructor, and the director of the 
Garden, on the requirements in forestry, botany, and gardening 
for various scout badges. The conference was in preparation 
for a revision of the requirements in these subjects in the scout 
manual. 
Miss Shaw has spent much time in securing gifts of material 
from dealers, manufacturers and others, to be used later to illus- 
trate public lectures to school children and to adults, on useful 
plants and allied topics. 
mong the public lectures given by Miss Shaw have been 
those to parents’ clubs at Woodmere, L. I., at Bethany settlement 
house, to the public school teachers at Hackensack, N. J., and to 
the pupils of the Ethical Culture School of New York, and of 
Woodmere Academy. Her writings on botanical, garden, and 
nature study topics, since she assumed her position at the Gar- 
den, have been written largely in connection with her work as 
editor and contributor of the “ Young Folks’ Garden” depart- 
ment of the Garden Magazine, of the “ Nature” department of 
* See Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record 3: 1-9. Ja 1914. 
