THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
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New York, N. Y., July, 1913 No. 3 
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The annual report: of the president of the Board of Educa- 
tion of the City of New York, submitted in January, 1912, con- 
tained a recommendation to the effect that the course of study 
adopted by the board in 1903, and considerably modified in 1995, 

should be revised. This recommendation was referred by the 
board to its Committee on Studies and ‘Text Books, and that 
committee presented a formal report on the subject on Febru- 
ary 3, 1913. The report was printed as Board of IMducation 
Document No. 3, 1913. 
The details of this report are summed up by the recom- 
mendation (p. 6), “that the course of study be revised by cutting 
down the time now prescribed for many subjects, increasing the 
time of others, and eliminating some altogether as separate sub- 
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jects.” Among the studies whose elimination as separate subjects 
was recommended was nature study. ‘The following quotation 
is from page & of the report: 
Nature Study 
The syllabus covering this subject is so weighty that not even a respect- 
able percentage can possibly be taught within the time allowed to it by 
the present schedule. It seems advisable to eliminate it entirely as a 
separate subject, but to provide for so much nature work as may be pos- 
