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This speaks remarkably well for the enthusiasm and earnestness 
of the members, and also for the ability of those who have the 
organization in charge to inspire the members. 
On Saturday, October 19, seventy-eight members of the 
juniors visited the Garden, under the guidance of Miss Car- 
michael, and were shown by the Curator of Public Instruction 
some interesting features of tree life in the autumn. After the 
garden visit was over lunches were eaten in Prospect Park. 
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CONFERENCE WITH HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS 
On October 19, 1912, invitations were sent to all high school 
teachers of biology in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, 
whose names and addresses could be ascertained, to attend a 
conference on the following Saturday, October 26, at Io a. m., 
at the Museum Building on Eastern Parkway. The purposes of 
the conference were to have the teachers meet the recently ap- 
pointed Curator of Public Instruction, and to consider ways and 
means by which the Garden might become most useful to teachers 
and students in local high schools. 
Twenty-five invitations were mailed, and eleven teachers 
attended. ‘The New York Association of Biology Teachers was 
represented by its president, Mr. Richard W. Sharp, and the 
Department of Botany of the Brooklyn Institute, by its secretary, 
Miss Edith B. Brainerd, in place of the president of the depart- 
ment, Prof. Henry E. Chapin, who sent word that he was unable 
to be present. ‘he Garden was represented by the Director and 
by the Curator of Public Instruction, Dr. Olive. 
Dr. Gager briefly outlined the plan of development of the 
Garden, including the plantations, and the library, laboratory, 
and greenhouse facilities soon to become available, and em- 
phasized the purpose of the Garden to make itself as helpful as 
possible to teachers of botany in local schools. Dr. Olive then 
went over, in detail, a tentative outline of educational activities 
to be inaugurated by the Garden, calling special attention to 
proposed ways of articulating with the work of the schools. 
Copies of this outline were distributed, and there followed a very 
interesting and suggestive discussion, participated in by most of 
