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On the afternoon of May 23, a conference was held at the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden between the garden staff and some high 

 school teachers of biology of Greater New York, as represented 

 by the New York Association of Biology Teachers. The 

 purpose of the conference was to offer an opportunity for the 

 members of the association to become better acquainted with 

 the aims, equipment, and work of the garden, and to enable the 

 latter to secure from the teachers practical suggestions as to how 

 the garden may render the largest service to the teaching of 

 botany in New York City and vicinity. Following the conference 

 there was an inspection of the first section of the laboratory 

 building and the first two sections of the conservatories. The 

 second section of the conservatories devoted to tropical economic 

 plants, was opened to visitors for the first time on this occasion, 

 and will hereafter be open to the public daily. 



