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C. F. Hodge, author of the well known "Nature-Study and Life," 

 has accepted a chair of Zoology at the University of Oregon. He 

 is to be congratulated in throwing in his lot with this eminently 

 progressive North West. He leaves many friends at Clark Uni- 

 versity, Worcester, Mass., with which institution he has been con- 

 nected many years. 



Edwin H. Scott of the State Nonnal School, Milledgeville, Ga., 

 had charge of the agricultiire in the Virginia Summer School this 

 last year. He has also been conducting some interesting work 

 on chickens with his Normal Students which work is being 

 reflected in the grades as these students go out into the community. 



Teachers College Record for May contai;Las the curriculum of the 

 Horace Mann School including the outlines for Nature-Study. 

 The Speyer School curriculum (50c) was published by Teachers' 

 College this past summer also. 



The Review omitted, unintentionally, reference in earlier issues 

 to the death of O. W. Mitchell of the Normal vSchool at Milwaukee, 

 Wis., which occurred last summer. Mr. Mitchell was an enthusias- 

 tic bird student, an inspiring teacher and a man honored and 

 esteemed by a host of friends. 



Jefferson Butler, President of the Michigan Audubon Society, 

 was killed by an automobile in Detroit, his home city, Oct. 23d. 

 During the year just passed he had given sixty-eight lectures on 

 Nature-Study, largely on Birds, in the Schools of Michigan, taking 

 time from his law practice to donate his services in the interests of 

 a wider love for nature. 



Here are some good Government Bulletins : 



Readjustment of the Rural High School to the Needs oj the Com- 

 munity. Brown. Ed. Bui. No. 20. 1912. 



Course oJ Study for Rural School Teachers. Mutchler and Craig. 

 Ed. Bui. No. I. 1912. 



Training Courses for Rural Teachers. Monahan and Wright. 

 Ed. Bui. 2. 1913. 



Agricultural Instruction in the High Schools. Robison and 

 Jenks. Ed. Bui. No. 6. 19 13. 



