EDITORIAL NOTES 



The letters which have been called forth by the announce- 

 ment of the plans of the Review for 1910 are very gratifying 

 and indicate a lively interest on the part of elementary teachers 

 throughout the country. The teaching monograph idea meets 

 with especial approval. The March number, which should ap- 

 pear about the middle of the month, is already attracting much 

 attention and orders for extra copies are coming with almost 

 every mail. This Bird-Study Number will be copiously illus- 

 trated with photographs of domesticated song birds, game birds, 

 birds of prey, and the like, tame', yet free. The articles ac- 

 companying these attractive pictures will be practical and help- 

 ful to teachers, and at the same time genuine contributions to 

 bird literature. Already several orders have been received call- 

 ing for large quantities of the Bird-Study Number for use in 

 classes or for distribution to the teachers of a city or a county. 

 Special rates will be given where these quantity orders are placed 

 in advance of publication. 



Owing to circumstances known to members of the A. N.- 

 S. S., the first two issues of the Review this year have been 

 somewhat late in appearing. Unless the unforseen happens, the 

 March number will appear about the middle of the month, and 

 the April number early in April. Henceforth we shall plan to 

 have the Review reach its readers during the first week of the 

 month for which it is dated. 



The American Nature-Study Society has from its inception 

 conceived its interest to cover all places of natural history 

 studies in elementary schools. Those environmental materials 

 appropriate to the uses of primary education are the object mat- 

 ter of nature-study. The life-touch, the significance of these 

 materials in child experience, gives the cue to the subject matter. 

 To the pupils of the lower grades, these materials are but crude- 

 ly differentiated, unorganized into nomenclatures. With the 

 technical aspects of science the elementary teacher — though she 

 may well be informed as a student — is not concerned as an in- 

 structor. She is to deal with the child world. 



Among the standing committees of the A. N.-S. S. is a 

 committee on Hygiene. The Review offers no apology for de- 

 voting its present number to this important general topic. 

 One of the contributors in this issue, in prefacing his article. 



