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cocoons by exhibitor. (8) Best corn plant. (9) Best cotton plant. Full 

 information concerning rules and prizes may be obtained from Professor F. L. 

 Stevens, Secretary of the Society, Raleigh, N. C. 

 New College Course in Nature-Study. The new agricultural college 



founded by Sir William Macdonald and to be located near Montreal will 

 give special attention to training teachers of nature-study and elementary 

 agriculture. Professor Lochhead, of the Ontario Agricultural College, will 

 take charge of biology and nature-study in the new college. Professor James 

 Robertson, formerly Dominion Commissioner of Agriculture, will be 

 president. 



North Carolina Nature-Study Society. This Society which was 

 formed two years ago has steadily grown until it now numbers nearly one 

 thousand members, and each week a number of new names of teachers from 

 North Carolina, and often from other States, are added to the membership 

 roll. 



Value and Methods of Nature-Study. Professor J. W. Shepherd, 



of the Chicago Normal School, addressed a conference of educators and 

 others at a recent meeting in the Municipal Museum, Chicago. His address 

 contained the following points concerning the value and methods of nature- 

 study : (1 ) Nature-study, to gain admission to the school curriculum, must 

 furnish a working contribution to child life, — must result in doing. (2) 

 The contribution is two-fold, (a) Character producing (ethical), and (b) 

 Information giving. (3) "a" in 2 is best attained when the children 

 recognize the validity of individual and community life in plants and animals 

 and make their investigation accordingly; " b," by learning fundamentals 

 about plants and animals and simple physical principles that will enable the 

 "children to make their physical surroundings better. (4) In nature-study 

 children should work with acfual things, under the stimulation of some 

 problem to them. 



Nature-Study in a Sanitarium. Mr. E. M. Brigham, who has 

 traveled extensively in South America, has been appointed nature-study in- 

 structor in the Sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan. This is the largest 

 institution of the kind in the world, all the time having from 600 to 1000 

 patients. Every day, no matter what the weather, Mr. Brigham takes a 

 big party of patients on an outing, and upon returning gives them a natural 

 history talk. The plan is proving a great success, and the physicians of the 

 institution find that it pavs to employ a permanent instructor in nature- 

 study, especially because it helps in keeping the patients out-of-doors in the 

 fresh air many hours a day. 



