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BEST BOOKS FOR NATURE STUDY 



Letters concerning the article with this title in the May issue are 

 still coming to the editorial office of The Review. We hope to have 

 many more selected lists and comments on those published in time 

 for publication in March. 



WEAKNESS IN NATURE STUDY 

 Concerning the article with this title in the October Review many 

 letters have been received, some agreeing with Dr. Hornaday and 

 others strongly opposing his views. If you have opinions which you 

 think worth defending, send them at once for publication in a series 

 of discussions in the February issue. The subject is one of the most 

 important which have been discussed in this Journal, and we need 

 enough letters to show the general trend of opinion. 



TYPES OF THE BEST NATURE-STUDY 



Under this general heading we plan to publish next month a paper 

 by Professor Hodge on "Practical Work with Mosquitoes." Con- 

 cerning this paper Professor Hodge writes as follows: "The plan in 

 a word is to call out from the whole circle of Review readers the best 

 bit of practical nature study teaching each has done dining the past 

 year. The question is: What ha' ye done? How did it go? I 

 find everywhere I go that it is this question the teachers want to have 

 answered. We certainly have been up in the clouds long enough and 

 I think this general reaction is the most hopeful sign for the future of 

 nature-study I have seen." 



Undoubtedly many readers could help answer the above questions. 

 If you have worked out any practical lessons new to your school, send 

 your results to The Review. 



NOTES ON PAMPHLETS AND MAGAZINES 



Bird Migration and Geography. The intimate relation between 

 nature-study and geography is shown in an article on "Migration of birds 

 as a subject for geography study," by Spencer Trotter, in the Journal of 

 Geography (April, 1906). 



Cultivation of Food Fishes. Fifty species are now cultivated by the 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. The list includes salmons, trouts, whitefishes, 



