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Shaw School of Botany, the garden grounds are open to the 
public, and the founder’s will provides that there must be 
preached an annual sermon on the power, wisdom and goodness 
of God as shown in the growth of flowers, fruits and other gape 
of the plant world. The collections are freely used by t 
teachers with their classes in nature study. 
9. Montreal (1585).—It was the intention of the founders of 
this garden to make ample provision for formal instruction in 
otany, pure and applied, but the institution was under municipal 
control, and finally ‘‘killed by political differences in the city 
council.” 
10. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y. City 
(1894) —The forerunner of this garden was the “Elgin Botanic 
Garden,” of Dr. David Hosack, in New York City (the present 
borough of Manhattan). The garden was successively trans- 
ferred to New York state and then to Columbia University but 
was finally abandoned for lack of mone The present garden 
has a coéperative agreement with Columb ce 
herbarium and botanical library of the university are deposited 
with the garden, and the university students and staff in botany 
enjoy, without any additional fees, all the privileges of the 
garden. The undergraduate courses are all given at the uni- 
versity, but much of the research is carried on at the garden. 
Weekly lectures on “‘popular”’ and semi-popular botanical sub- 
jects are given on Saturday afternoons from April to November. 
The system of docentry, inaugurated in 1910, has been referred 
to above. 
Probably the most elaborate attempt ever made on the part 
of an institution of ie character, to codperate with and aid the 
nature-study work of public schools are the courses of spring 
and fall lectures given to the teachers and pupils of grades 4B 
and 5B of the city schools. In the annual report of the director- 
in-chief for 1904 it was recommended that, ‘lectures designe d 
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might be given with advantage, 
board of education of the city passed resolutions empowering 
the principals to arrange for the lectures. At the close of the 
