THE 



NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



DEVOTED TO ALL PHASES OF NATURE-STUDY IN SCHOOLS 



Vol. 5 JANUARY, 1909 No. i 



AMERICAN NATURE-STUDY SOCIETY 



The two meetings held at Baltimore on December 29th and 

 30th were devoted to the relation of nature-study to elementary- 

 agriculture and high-school sciences. The papers read will be 

 published in March or April. 



Report of Business Meeting 



At a business meeting of the Society, held as previously 

 announced in The Review, the following business was trans- 

 acted: 



Election of officers. The chairman appointed tellers 

 who after counting votes cast by members present and 

 those received by mail, declared the following new officers 

 elected: President, Professor C. F. Hodge, of Clark University, 

 Worcester, Mass. Vice-presidents, Professor V. L. Kellogg, of 

 Stanford University, Calif.; Professor F. L. Stevens, N. C. Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Raleigh, N. C; Profes- 

 sor W. Lochhead. Macdonald College, Quebec; Professor 

 O. W. Caldwell, The University of Chicago; Professor B. M. 

 Davis, Miami Univ., Oxford, O. Directors (for two years) — 

 G. H. Trafton, Pubhc Schools, Passaic, N. J.; Professor F. L. 

 Holtz, Brooklyn Training School, N. Y.; Professor J. Dearness, 

 Normal School, London, Canada; Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., and Dr. Ruth Marshall, 

 Milwaukee High Schools. 



A resolution was passed instructing the secretary-treasurer 

 to make the annual report cover the calendar year 1908, and 

 after approval by an auditing committee, to be appointed by 

 the president, to pubUsh the full report in The Nature-Study 

 Review. ' 



A motion was passed requesting the council to add to the 

 list of committees under consideration a committee on training 

 of teachers of nature-study. 



