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THE PROBLEM THAT FACES US 21 



ent positions because it keeps one wondering what will happen 

 next. It makes you think lots to understand why they go the 

 way they do." 



The work here outlined is being followed by a study of 

 electro-magnetism and its application to modern industrial life, 

 the crane used in foundries, the electric bell, the telegraph, etc. 

 A prominent aim, as in all nature-study work, is to bring the 

 child into closer relations with his environment. 



THE PROBLEM THAT FACES US 



(The following communication from the president of the A. N-S. S. is 

 timely and in keeping with the announced purposes of the Review. ED.) 



The movement that has been so well started by Professor 

 M. A. Bigelow — first in the form of the Nature-Study Review, 

 and secondly in the form of the American Nature-Study Society 

 — deserves the active cooperation of every one who is interested 

 in elementary science in any of its forms. In starting the Re- 

 view and in organizing the society Mr. Bigelow has helped 

 greatly in giving definiteness to what had previously been much 

 more divergent interests. He has done this work at much 

 sacrifice in time and money. It is understood that Mr. Bige- 

 low is soon to return to active assistance in both magazine and 

 society, but on account of other work, we are informed, ab- 

 sence for a time from these duties is necessary. 



To further the interests of the magazine and society, at 

 least three things are necessary. First, there are a good many 

 people who are interested in the nature-study movement who 

 are more or less out of sympathy witli some of the things that 

 have been done in the name of nature-study. Will not all these 

 people take an active hand in doing something constructive in 

 connection with the work, instead of using their energy in de- 

 crying the real or imagined evils that may have been practiced? 

 The American Nature-Study Society and the Nature-Study 

 Review are intended to be large enough to include all who are 

 really interested in the movement. Magazine and society were 

 organized in the interests of constructive work, and all who 

 are doing anything with nature-study or who are directly in- 

 terested in those who are doing anything, should feel it a mat- 

 ter of opportunity and duty to study the situation in a con- 

 structive way. Evils may have been conspicuous, even ludi- 

 crous, but if we continue to put in so much time pointing out 



