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takes will be made in the identification of the species and that 

 -absolutely nothing but the location of nesting passenger pigeons 

 will secure any of the awards. Many thousands of the colored 

 plates of pigeon and mourning dove — both Mr. Reed's leaflet and 

 the Audubon Society plates — have been distributed and literally 

 millions of notices have appeared in the newspapers. The plan 

 has been proved to work to perfection. The only hitch has been 

 in the case of men — or women — who have more money than sense 

 and rather enjoy losing $5 on an interesting bluff. 



Theodore Roosevelt has expressed his interest in the work 

 ■ and his desire to join the confirming party, if certain that the 

 nesting pigeons have been discovered. 



Mr. F. W. Howe went last month from the Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, to Albany, N. Y., as 

 State Supervisor of Agricultural Education. This is a new 

 position created by the legislature last winter. 



Mr. Frederick Loeser, of the Frederick Loeser Co. (De- 

 partment Store, Brooklyn), has made the offer to supply free 

 to every child of the Brooklyn schools who asks for one next 

 Arbor Day, a catalpa tree for street planting. 



Mr. J. F. Norwald, of Upsala, Sweden, High School, who 

 "has a royal traveling scholarship, is at present visiting schools and 

 colleges in this country, studying high school science teaching 

 and nature-study in the grades. 



Prof. M. A. Bigelow, of Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has returned from his period of study abroad. 



NOTES ON BOOKS AND PERIODICALS 



'•Seeds of Michigan Weeds" is the topic of Bulletin 250, Michigan 

 "State Agricultural Experiment Station, Division of Botany, (East Lan- 

 sing, Mich.). That the bulletin is prepared by W. J. Beal is warrant 

 of its excellence. It is an admirable production, describing and illus- 

 trating seeds of a very large number of more or less common weeds. 

 Printed on a good quality of paper, the press work is excellent. All 

 teachers who see it will recognize its usefulness. 



"Rural School Efficiency in Kalamazoo County, Michigan," is the 



topic of a forty-page pamphlet prepared by Prof. Ernest Burnham, in 

 charge of the Rural School Department of the State Normal School, 

 Kalamazoo, Michigan. It is published by the State Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction. It represents a very careful and intensive study 



•of a local area and will be especially useful to students and supervisors 



of rural schools. 



