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The School Garden Association of New York has published 

 a flower study calendar for New York City schools. This is a 

 list prepared by Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton giving a flower to 

 be studied each week of the school year. Those for the fall 

 and spring are about equally divided between wild and garden 

 flowers, those for the winter months are flowers commonly 

 found at the florists. On Arbor Day the school children will 

 vote for a school flower. In 1925 the children selected the 

 Rose as a school flower. In 1926, the Cherry as a school tree. 

 In 1927 the Robin as a school bird, each for a period of three 

 years. 



Dr. L. O. Howard has resigned from the United States Bureau 

 of Entomology at the end of fifty years service. Dr. Howard 

 was made chief of the bureau in 1894. In 1904 he was made 

 permanent secretary of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science and honorary curator of the United 

 State National Museum. In 1920 he was elected president of 

 the American Association. He plans to devote all of his time 

 now to research work in entomology. 



At the New England Conference of the American Association 

 of Museums, Mr. William Carr of the American Museum of 

 Natural History described the Nature Trails established this 

 summer in the Bear Mountain Section of the Palisades Inter- 

 state Park. There were botanical, zoological, geological and 

 historical trails, each marked with labels of different colors. 

 On the botany trail, marked with green, all the different kinds of 

 trees, shrubs and flowering plants were labeled and some note 

 of interest given for each. 



Professor John W. Harshberger of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania has recently returned from a collecting expedition in 

 South America with five hundred pressed specimens for the 

 university collection. Duplicates have been sent to the New 

 York Botanical Garden and the U. S. National Museum, 



