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Institute Museum, and editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club. Mr. Morris was born at Monson, Mass., on 
October 23, 1870. He graduated from Amherst College in or 
taking the master’s degree in 1895. From 1893-95 he was 
laboratory assistant and instructor in biology at Amherst, and 
from 1895-96, instructor in botany and chemistry in the Western 
High School, Washington, D. C., becoming director of botany 
in the Washington high schools in 1898, and head of the depart- 
ment of biology in 1909. He was appointed curator of natural 
science in the Brooklyn Institute Museum in 1897, and editor 
of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club in 1913. 
During last July the layout of the general systematic sec- 
tion of the Garden, including trees, shrubs, and herbs was 
carefully mapped. On September 3, the surveyor set the stakes 
locating the beds, and the preparation of the beds began on 
September 15. The installation of this collection, covering the 
present lawn on either side of the brook, will be begun in 
October. 
On the afternoon of September 17, under the auspices of 
the National Plant, Flower, and Fruit Guild, occurred the field 
day at the Children’s Farm Garden, at the corner of Verona 
and Richards streets in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. 
Prizes for the best crops were delivered to the children. Their 
evident delight made the occasion a very enjoyable one to all 
present, and their enthusiasm in the care of the beets, corn, 
beans, and kohl-rabi, showed clearly their innate delight in 
growing things. Each farm measured 4 x 10 feet. Short 
addresses and talks were made by Mrs. George D. Pratt, the 
president of the Brooklyn branch of the guild; by Mrs. Daniel 
C. Hood, its secretary; by Mrs. Anna T. Molten, Mr. Paul A. 
Steeley; and by Dr. Olive, of the Garden staff. The Visitation 
Church and parochial school, across the street from the farm 
garden, cared for the gardening tools during the season, and in 
other ways took vital interest in the development of this import- 
ant stimulus to neighborhood and general civic betterment. 
