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Committee, Eunice A. Beatson, 614 Fisher Ave.; Cat License 

 Publicity Committee, A. C. Norris, no Stanley st. 



October 17, 1914. Norman E. Nelson, Secretary. 



Garden City, N. Y., October 24th, 19 14. 



The officers of our Association for this next year are as follows: 

 Ellen Eddy Shaw, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and The Garden 

 Magazine, president; Miss Katherine Bevier, Principle P. S. 43, 

 Manhattan, vice-president; Miss Letta Burns, Nature-Study 

 Department, Jamaica Training School, secretary and treasurer. 

 The Executive Committee is composed of the above officers and 

 Dr. Jean Broadhurst, Teachers' College and Miss Grace Lyman, 

 New York City Training School. 



The New York section meets three times a year and endeavors 

 to place before its members the discussion of some practical subject 

 in teaching nature-study. The meetings are held in the fall, 

 winter and early summer. This last meeting is usually an outdoor 

 one. At the present fall meeting, our National President, Mrs. 

 Anna B. Comstock, spoke. Yours sincerely, 



Letta Burns Sec. 



The American Genetic Association is offering two prizes of $100 

 for two photographs — one of the largest tree of a nut-bearing 

 variety in the United States, and one of the largest broad-leaf tree 

 which does not bear edible seeds. In the first class, for example, 

 are included trees such as chestnut, oak, walnut, butternut, and 

 pecan; and in the second, trees such as elm, birch, maple, cotton- 

 wood, and tulip poplar. No photographs of cone-bearing trees 

 are wanted, since it is definitely known that the California big 

 trees have no rivals among conifers. At a later time the associa- 

 tion may take up the same question as between the various kinds 

 of conifers, as pines, spruces, firs, cedars, and cypresses. 



The purpose of the competition, as stated by the association, is 

 to find out in what regions the native trees attain their largest 

 growth, and under what conditions they thrive best. When these 

 large trees are located and the measurements authenticated, the 

 association hopes that it may be possible to secure seeds, cuttings, 

 or grafting wood from thrifty trees in the region where they grow, 

 to see whether finer specimens may be propagated in other parts of 

 the country. 



