.VOTES ON PAMPHLETS AND MAGAZINES 3 J 5 



gravlings, catfishes, bufFalo-fish, shad, pickerel, basses, perches, tautog, cod, 

 flounder. More than one and one- half billions of young fish were raised 

 and distributed in 1905. [B. of F. Document No. 602]. 



Preparation for Nature-Study Teaching. Dr. Goodwin, in charge 

 of secondary schools in the State of New York Department of Education, 

 writes in the Educational Review as follows: 



"An incidental feature of the revised syllabus [for high schools] is a 

 one-year course in biology consisting of some study of botanv, zoology, and 

 human physiology. Its unity is insured by the special emphasis given to the 

 study of the vital processes that characterize both plants and animals. It is 

 elementary and therefore adapted to the first year. It aims at scientific 

 teaching, but not comprehensive knowledge. It is to be a required subject 

 for all students in secondary schools who expect to prepare for teaching in 

 any of the twelve normal schools or fourteen city training schools within the 

 State of New York. There is a double design in this requirement. The 

 first is to arouse the student's sympathy for animate objects, to develop his 

 power to make accurate observations, to train him to make an intelligible 

 record of his knowledge, and to prepare him for subsequent science-study in 

 the secondary school. The second is to make "nature-study" successful in 

 the elementary schools, by qualifying teachers to give instruction in this 

 subject. 



Alcohol. Concerning the use of alcohol for industrial purposes there 

 is now widespread interest, and to meet the demand for information 

 Farmers' Bulletins 268 and 269 (free) have been issued bv the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Boys and Girls Magazine. Recent numbers of this monthly, edited 

 and published by Martha Van Rensselaer, Ithaca, N. Y., are full of interest 

 to active, wide-awake boys and girls and their teachers. Excellent lessons 

 in nature-study are regular features. If you have not seen this little maga- 

 zine, send a postage stamp- for a sample copy. 



Nature and Science for Young Folks. This department, which 

 Dr. E. F. Bigelow has been conducting in St. Nicholas for five or more 

 vears, continues to keep up to the high standard set in the first years. With- 

 out the knowledge of the editor and publishers, the writer of this note has 

 quietly inquired concerning the interest of children in this department and 

 the uniform testimony of parents and teachers makes it clear that a popular 

 magazine can do much valuable work as a teacher and inspirer of nature- 

 study. It is unfortunate that so many families cannot afford to subscribe for 

 St. Nicholas, but teachers of nature-studv ought to show copies to their pupils 

 and encourage them to read the "Nature and Science" department at the 



