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and Preservation of City ‘Trees, under the enthusiastic leadership 
of Miss Carmichael, of the Children’s Museum, of The Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences. The juniors presented to the 
school one of the nine trees of oriental sycamore, the others 
being bought by the high school pupils, each of whom contributed 
three cents toward the fund for this purpose. Mrs. John il 
Schoonhoven, vice-president of the association, and Mr. Levison, 
arboriculturist of the Park Department, also made addresses at 
the meeting. Other addresses were given by Dr. Olive on the 
evening of April 22, before the men’s club of Mt. Olivet Presby- 
terian Church, Brooklyn, on “The Brooklyn Botanic Garden,” and 
on the afternoon of May 20, before the engineering students of 
New York University, on “Camp Hygiene.” 
On March 26, 1913, the Garden purchased the herbarium of 
the late Henry Dautun, comprising about 31,000 specimens. Mr. 
Dautun, who died on February 23, 1913, was for several years 
a member of the Torrey Botanical Club, and had botanical cor- 
respondents, not only in America, but also in several countries 
of Europe. He was born at St. Fargeau, Yonne, France, in 1853. 
On May 20, a class of about forty students from the Jamaica 
training school for teachers, accompanied by their instructor, 
Miss Burns, visited the Garden by appointment. 
The staff and students of the department of biology of the 
College of the City of New York maintain a vigorous biological 
club, which conducts a seminar and other scientific meetings 
during the year, and gives a dinner near the close of each semes- 
ter. The final scientific meeting for 1912-13 was held on the 
afternoon of May 22, and was followed by an informal dinner 
in the main building of the college. An address was given by 
Prof. Gary N. Calkins, professor of protozoology in Columbia 
University. Other invited guests of the association included 
Dean Brownson of the college; Prof. Earle B. Phelps, research 
assistant professor of chemical biology in the Massachusetts In- 
stitute of ‘Technology; and the director of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden, all of whom made brief after-dinner remarks. Silver 
medals offered by an alumnus of the college and former member 
of the association, were awarded by Dean Brownson to several 
