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NATURE-STUDY LECTURES TO PUBLIC SCHOOL 
CHILDREN. 
The nature-study lectures, with accompanying demonstra- 
tions, to the pupils of 4B and 5B grades of the Public Schools of 
the Bronx were given in the lecture hall of the Museum Building 
of the Garden during October and November. 
The course included ten lectures which were delivered by 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Dr. H. H. Rusby, Dr. M. A. Howe, Mr. G. V. 
Nash, and Dr. F. J. Seaver, assisted by six teachers as dem- 
onstrators. 
With the exception of the lecture on the afternoon of November 
7, which was abandoned on account of inclement weather, two 
lectures were held on each lecture day, the first commencing at 
10:15 A.M. and the second at 1:45 P.M. 
The accompanying table of attendance was prepared by 
Principal Stevens of Public School 44. 
ao 
4B Lectures. 5B Lectures. 
| 
ie M. P. M. Total. | A. M, Lectures, | P. M. Lectures. Total. 
Lectures, Lectures. 
B a a a a 6) a 
Ohya) Bey Be le fg Ee 
& a | a a ae 
pais) epee | 
14 |403} 26 634 40 1037 | 9 241 16 436 25 | 677 
13/255 fete) 000 255 j 349 18 465 814 
329 12 641 
53. | 1202 Nae | 78 2132, 
Grand total; both grades ice is one swale eae SA ee Se "  13I 3424 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, Vermont, spent 
several days at the Garden in November in continuation of his 
work on violets. 
Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, curator of botany in The Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chicago, spent several days at the Garden in 
November compiling notes for a second edition of his ‘‘ Flora of 
West Virginia.” 
