146 THE Na I TURE-STUD Y RE VIE W [6:5-May. 1910 



Study to Secondary School Science, the members of which are 

 Otis W. Caldwell, University of Chicago; J. A. Drushel, Teach- 

 ers College, St. Louis; J. H. Smith, Austin High School, Chi- 

 cago; William M. Butler, Yeatman High School, St. Louis; and 

 Fred L. Charles, University of Illinois, Chairman. The 1909 

 report of this committee was printed in the January (1910) Na- 

 ture-Study Review. The subject is to be further developed and 

 presented at the Cleveland meeting this year. It is especially 

 urged that careful, scientific experimentation be made in nature- 

 study teaching, the results to be reported next November. 

 Members of the committee will gladly assist any who 1 are inter- 

 ested to co-operate in this important investigation. 



A letter from Prof. M. A. Bigelow, now in London, ex- 

 presses his satisfaction in the continued growth of the Ameri- 

 can Nature-Study Society. He plans to leave for Paris May 17, 

 thence about May 25 to Switzerland, and thence to Germany for 

 two months in Berlin or Munich. 



In connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 founding of the University of California, there will be an 

 exhibit representative of the activities of all the various depart- 

 ments. The department of Agricultural Education will prepare 

 an exhibit illustrating its work in encouragement of nature- 

 study in the elementary schools of California. 



The first field meet of the St. Louis Members of A. N.'-S. S. 

 was held April 29. Sixty members of the Society, including 

 sections in bird study, botany, insect study, mushrooms, and 

 topography, under the leadership of Mr. Drushel of the Teach- 

 ers College, made the trip from Jefferson Barracks to and 

 through Cliff Cave, making observations upon the springs, sink- 

 holes and underground streams of the St. Louis limetone. 



The report of the Conference on the Teaching of Agri- 

 cultural Nature-Study, held recently at the College of Agri. 

 culture, University of Illinois, has been crowded out of this is- 

 sue. It may be be given some attention in later numbers. 



Just as we go to press, we have the cheering news from 

 Milwaukee of a New ('enter of THe American Nature-Study 

 Society in that city. The leading spirit is Prof. I. N. Mitchell, of 

 the State Normal School, who reports a meeting at which sev- 

 eral new members joined our society. 



