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mum salary to be paid is $3,000. The position became open about 
the middle of June, 1914. 
On May 15 were held the opening exercises of the new forestry 
building of New York State College of Agriculture, at Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y. An elaborate program was carried out, 
occupying the entire day and evening. On the day following, the 
Society of American Foresters held in the new building an open 
meeting devoted to a discussion of the topic, “ Lines of principal 
effort in American foresty for the next decade.” 
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The May, 1914, number of Art and Progress was a special 
garden number, with articles on old world gardens, New England 
gardens, formal gardens, garden sculpture, gardens of California, 
Charleston gardens, and an editorial on outdoor art and the 
modernists movement. 
On May 6, a class of forty pupils from the Commercial High 
School (Annex), accompanied by their instructors in botany, Dr. 
Micael Levin, and Dr. Wallace A. Manheimer, visited the garden 
under the guidance of a member of staff. 
Visitors to the Garden since January 1, 1914, included Dr. 
Edmund W. Sinnott, of the Bussey Institution of Harvard Uni- 
versity, Dr. W. A. Orton, of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, Washington, Dr. Jean Broadhurst, of Columbia University, 
and a class of young ladies, Prof. E. M. East, of the Bussey Insti- 
tution of Harvard University, Prof. Manahu Miyoshi, of the 
botanic garden of the Imperial University, Tokyo, Dr. Harry B. 
Shaw, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Prof. Chas. W. 
Hargitt, of Syracuse University, Dr. Charles Brooks, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, Prof. John W. Harshberger, University 
of Pennsylvania, Prof. Fred. D. Fromme, of Purdue University, 
and Professor R. A. Harper, of Columbia University. 
On May 16, Dr. H. A. Gleason, assistant professor of botany 
in the University of Michigan, visited the Garden. Dr. Gleason 
was passing through New York en route for Ann Arbor, after a 
year’s trip westward around the world. During the trip he visited 
the principal botanic gardens of the countries passed through, in- 
cluding those at Tokyo, Buitenzorg, Paradeniya, Paris, and Kew. 
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