The American Nature Study Society and The School 



Gardening Association 



At the meeting of the Massachusetts Council of the supervisors 

 of Nature-Study and Gardening held in conjunction with the 

 N. E. A., last July, Mabel E. Turner, Secretary of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Council was appointed as a representative of that body 

 and Van Evrie Kilpatrick, Supervisor of Gardening in the City of 

 New York was appointed as a representative of the School Garden 

 Association to meet with the representative from the American 

 Nature-Study Society, and confer concerning apian to unite the 

 two. These representatives are to report back to their respective 

 organizations at the next meetings. 



Members of the American Nature-Study Society who have 

 opinions in favor or against the amalgamation of these two so- 

 cieties are earnestly entreated to write the same to our President, 

 Dr. William Gould Vinal of Rhode Island College of Education, 

 Providence, R. I. These letters should be in Dr. Vinal's hands by 

 the first of December, as the question will come up for action 

 at the Boston meeting during the Holidays. 



The 

 Editor's Web 



Dr. Vinal, the President of the American Nature-Study Society 

 is par excellence a teacher; and he is all the more excellent as a 

 teacher because he has a fine sense of humor which he uses wisely 

 to allay the sting of criticism instead of using it to sharpen the 

 "pointed shaft" as do many critics. Moreover, his criticism is 

 always constructive and we have faith that the mistakes that he 

 lists in his contribution to this number of the Review will serve 

 to make us all more careful and accurate in our statements and 

 phraseology. 



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