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never dream that it can be of value to others. With such freedom 

 and range of selection fewer pupils may study nature than would 

 were the course less elastic, but the value of this study will be 

 beyond question and its relative standing in this curriculum will be 

 assured. 



NOTES ON RECENT PAMPHLETS 



Georgia School Gardens. The Geo-gia School Improvement Club has 

 issued a very useful leaflet on gardens by Miss Lucy L. Davis of the State 

 Normal School. 



Lessons in Nature-Study. A leaflet for rural and ungraded schools, 

 by Etta M. Bardwell, Ottumwa, la. Contains numerous suggestions 

 valuable for the teachers who need definite guidance. 



Wisconsin Bird Study Bulletin. An interesting pamphlet of 28 

 pages, illimrated by inserted colored plates from a well known publishing 

 house. The birds selected are common ones in all parts of the state. 

 Other bulletins will extend this bird study. The authors are Mr. and Mrs. 

 I. N. Mitchell, of Milwaukee; and the State Superintendent of Schools is 

 the publisher. 



Wisconsin Arbor Day Annual. A pamphlet of selected literature for 

 Arbor Day programs. It also includes a few articles on value of trees. 

 Issued by C. P. Cary, State Superintendent of Schools of Wisconsin. 



Humane Education. A bulletin to aid teachers in carrying out the 

 provisions of the California law prescribing instructions in humane education. 

 It is essentially nothing but a course in nature-study with special emphasis on 

 treatment of animals and plants. The topics are: pets (cat, dog, birds); 

 domestic animals (horse, cow, sheep, Jowls) ; wild animals (birds, fishes, 

 mammals, insects, frogs); game laws of California; bibliography. Through- 

 out the course unnecessarv and wanton injury or destruction of either plants 

 or animals is strongly opposed. Of course this has long been done by many 

 teachers of nature-studv : but it will be worth while for teachers to read this 

 pamphlet and get the point of view and suggestions of the writers who have 

 specially studied the moral value of nature-study. The bulletin is issued by 

 State Normal School, San Diego, Cal. 



Pennsylvania Bulletins of Zoology. The monthly bulletins issued 

 bv Professor H. A. Surface, Economic Zoologist for the State of Pennsylvania, 



