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On September 12, a Teachers Institute meeting on nature 
study was held at the Garden for public school teachers of 
the Bronx. The main address was by Dr. Peabody, after 
which there was an excursion led by Mr. Percy Wilson. 
On September 14, about 160 teachers from the public 
schools of the Bronx met at the Garden to hear an illustrated 
lecture by Mr. George V. Nash on “‘ How the Public Schools 
can use the Collections of Living Plants at the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden.” After the lecture, there was an excursion 
to various parts of the grounds under the direction of Mr. 
Percy Wilson. 
On October 4, over 50 pupils from the senior class of Morris 
High School came to the Garden to study methods of prop- 
agation in plants and some of the principles of plant 
breeding, under the direction of Dr. A. B. Stout. 
On December 7, about 100 children of the 5B grade from 
P.S. 10 of the Bronx received instruction at the Garden 
in the classification of plants. 
Scientific Meetings 
The monthly conferences of members of the staff and 
students have been continued, and a report of each meeting 
has been published in the current number of the Journal. 
The Torrey Botanical Club has met each month as usual 
in the morphological laboratory in the museum building. 
The Horticultural Society of New York, in cooperation 
with the New York Botanical Garden, held exhibitions of 
plants and flowers in the museum building on May 13 and 
14, May 20 and 21, June 24 and 25, August 19 and 20, and 
September 23 and 24. 
Personal Investigations 
Three parts of North American Flora, containing descrip- 
tions of 476 species of the higher fleshy fungi, 150 of which 
were new, were published during the year. 
Articles contributed to Mycologia also contained a few 
new species. The popular illustrated articles on fungi in 
