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is a good manure most people know. The leaves of the grasses, 
being upright, are washed clean on both sides by every shower ; 
the soot is carried down into the soil, and by the time growth 
commences in the spring there is collected near the fibrous roots 
enough food to last the summer through. 
“Tt is some consolation to find that London fog and London 
smoke are not quite so bad as most people think them.”—The 
Botanical Journal, 3: 10. p 1914. 
The Park Museum, in Roger Williams Park, Providence, R. I. 
is actively engaged in cooperation with the work of the local 
schools in Providence. In addition to a course of free lectures 
given on Sunday afternoons, occasional lectures are given by pre- 
arrangement to visiting schools and other organizations. Lec- 
tures are also given at the schools, to either the whole school or 
to particular grades upon request of the Principal, and duplicate 
material is loaned to schools for study purposes. A list of such 
material, furnished to teachers, includes birds and bird charts, in- 
sects, minerals, soils, and mammals, and for botany, ten different 
species of native woods, 250 colored lantern slides of common 
wild flowers, and a list of plant material that will be collected 
upon request, provided notice is given three days in advance by 
postal or telephone. This latter list is as follows: 1. Buds of 
pussy-willow, horse-chestnut, lilac, Forsythia, and alder; 2. Leaves 
of any of the common trees; 3. Evergreen twigs; 4. Wild flowers 
in season. 
The school sends a pupil for the material, which may be kept, 
three weeks, and may be sub-loaned, if desired, to other teachers 
in the same building. With each loan there is sent a blank record 
card, with data to be filled in and signed by the teacher as follows: 
REcoRDS OF CIRCULATING CoLLECTION No, —— 

Date Received pa | Signature of Teachers 
| ee 
This work is in charge of Mr. Harold L. Madison, curator, 
assisted by Miss Magoon, who state that the facilities thus offered 
are increasingly appreciated by the local schools. 



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