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by demonstration : walk from museum building to and around 

 herbaceous grounds ; thence past greenhouses to station. Ob- 

 serve trees, shrubs, herbs, mosses, lichens, mushrooms, seaweeds. 

 Lecture III. — " Classification of Plants," by Dr. N. L. Britton. 

 Followed by demonstration : walk through museum building ; 

 to and around herbaceous grounds ; thence to station. Observe 



plants with one seed-leaf ; plants with two seed-leaves. 



The records of the committee of the Department of Education 

 .having the matter in charge show that 12,769 children and 

 teachers were given instruction, of which 9,378 were from the 

 Bronx and 3,391 from Manhattan. The discipline of the schools 

 is so perfect that there was no difficulty encountered in handling 

 the numbers of children up to 800 of an afternoon, and there can 

 be no doubt that they profited by their visits to the Garden in 

 many ways. During the progress of the lectures, the work was 

 inspected by many teachers from Europe who happened to be 

 in the city at the time, and it has been warmly commended by 

 them, and it is hoped that it can be still further expanded during 

 the next year. At the request of teachers who were unable to 

 attend the lectures in the afternoons, the course was repeated for 

 their benefit on Saturday mornings. 



N. L. Britton, 

 Director-in- Chief. 



NOTE ON A LITTLE-KNOWN WORK ON THE 

 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LEE- 

 WARD ISLANDS. 



The library secured recently a rare little volume entitled " Voy- 

 ages/ to the/ Madeira,/ and/ Leeward Caribbean Isles :/ with/ 

 Sketches/ of the/ Natural History of these Islands./ By Maria 

 R****»*./ Edinburgh:/ Printed for Peter Hill,/ and/ T..Ca- 

 dell,/ London,/ 1792." 12 . 105 p. 



Being unable to find any trace of the name of the authoress, 

 Mr. James Brit.ten, the Editor of the " Journal of Botany," was 

 ■applied to and he has very kindly furnished the information that 



