The Sun and His Family may have appeared at the beginning similar 

 to this Spiral Nebula photographed at the Lick Observatory. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Our Own Sun and His Family. A. B. Comstock - - - 305 



The Moon Came to Earth. E. B. Whiting - ... 316 



The Moon and Thoreau. G. A. Harper 317 



Venus. D. P. Hillas ------- 320 



Star Charts by Paper Cutting. - 323 



Star Fairy Dreamland. ______ 326 



Time and Change, poem. L. A. Hasuman - - - - 328 



Common Mistakes in Natural History. W. G. Vinal - - 329 



Nature News. ------- 342 



Editorial -------- 344 



Amalgamation of Am. Nature-Study Society and School Garden Ass. 346 



Editors Web. -------- 346 



The Book Shelf. 348 



Anna B. Comstock, Editor 

 associate editors 



Susan Sipe ^lburtis 

 Prof. J. Andrew Drushel - 

 Prof. John Dearness 

 Miss Cora Smith 

 Prof. W. G. Vinal 



Washington, D. C. 



St. Louis, Mo. 



London, Ontario 



Erie, Penna. 



Providence, R. I. 



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 under the Act of March 3. 1879 



