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others, is the seminar and journal club, intended primarily for 
members of the staff and any others who may be interested in 
such advanced work. In starting this work, a circular letter 
was sent out on November 8, 1912, to all the teachers of biology 
in Brooklyn whose addresses could be ascertained, inviting their 
co-operation, and asking their opinions concerning four topics 
which were suggested for such a seminar. The majority of the 
replies favored the subject, “Heredity and Plant Breeding,” and 
a meeting was sought for December, but it was afterwards found 
advisable to postpone the serious work of the seminar until after 
the holidays. 
Notwithstanding, further, the obvious newness and incom- 
pleteness of the plantations and buildings of the Garden, it has 
at frequent intervals during the past fall been visited by many 
classes of both high school and grammar school pupils, accom- 
panied by their teachers. This fact, as well as the enthusiastic 
anticipation of both teachers and pupils, expressed from time to 
time, argues for the future usefulness of the Garden. At present 
quite accessible by reason of its central position in the city, the 
Garden promises to become even more easily accessible on the 
further improvement of rapid transit facilities. The visiting 
classes have studied the plantations already installed, the methods 
of resoiling in the central meadow, the planting of trees and 
shrubs along the brook, the large blanket labels giving gen- 
eral information about the various planted sections of the Gar- 
den, and the insectivorous and economic plants, as well as other 
developments of the Garden. Among the classes which have 
had official guidance during the fall were the senior class of the 
Yale University Forest School, accompanied by their instructor, 
Mr. Levison, and about eighty members of the Junior Depart- 
ment of the American Association for the Planting and Preserva- 
tion of City Trees, accompanied by Miss Carmichael, of the staff 
of the Children’s Museum. ‘That the use of the Garden is not 
restricted to the growing season is evidenced by the fact that 
numbers of these classes have come to the Garden to study the 
trees and other plants in winter condition. 
Many lantern slides, for the most part colored by Miss Elsie 
M. Kittredge, and illustrating largely plants of the local flora, 
