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Syllabus of Lectures on Animal Biology. By W. M. Smallwood. Pp. 

 166. Syracuse: University Printing Co. 1908. A useful and sugges- 

 tive outline of a year's course in biology for colleges. 



The Sport of Bird-Study. By H. K. Job. Pp. 284, ill. New York: The 

 Outing Publishing Co. 1908. An intensely interesting book showing 

 real sport in hunting birds with field glass and camera in place of a gun. 



Kirkes's Handbook of Physiology. By C. W. Greene. Pp. 723, ill. 

 New York: William Wood 8c Co. 1907. An excellent revision of this 

 famous book which in England has had twenty editions. Designed for 

 advanced students and medical schools. 



Studies of Fruit and Nut Bearing Trees. By E. R. Mosher. Pp. 51, 

 10x14, ill, Syracuse, N. Y. C. W. Bardeen. 1908. Designed as a 

 practical aid to teachers in blackboard decoration, using nature subjects, 

 but expanded into a test for preliminary nature-stud}'. It has numerous 

 correlated quotations from best literature. 



Bacteria in Relation to Country Life. By J. G. Lipman. New York: 

 Macmillan Co. 1908. Pp. 486, 69 figs. $1.50. A readable account of 

 the principles of bacteriology applied to rural science. It lacks practical 

 application of principles to inany concrete situations which so often de- 

 mand attention in countr}^ life. 



Civics and Health. By W. H. Allen. Boston: Ginn &- Co. 1909. 

 411 pp., ill. An excellent interpretation of hygiene from the \'iewpoint 

 of civics. Deserves thoughtful reading by educators and good citizens in 

 general. 



Cornell Rural School Leaflets. Alice G. McCloskey, Editor. Published 

 monthly since Sept., 1907. Valuable for elementary agriculture and 

 especially for agricultural nature-study. 



Midland Naturalist. No. 1 published April, 1909, by J. A. Nieuland, 

 University of Notre Dame, Ind. $1.00 per year. Devoted to natural 

 history of the Prairie States. 



Long Island Agronomist. An interesting fortnightly record of facts 

 from the experiment station of the Long Island Railroad. Published at 

 Huntington, L. I. Edited by Hal B. and Edith Loring Fullerton, who 

 know how to grow good crops in Long Island sand and also how to write 

 attracti\-e articles for the enlightenment of would-be commuters from the 

 great city adjoining. The leaflets are interesting for students of agri- 

 cultural problems anywhere within twelve thousand miles of Long Island. 



Cornell Home Nature-Study Course. This well-known leaflet, edited by 

 Mrs. Comstock, still continues to help New York State teachers by work- 

 ing out for them the syllabus adopted by the State Dept. of Education. It 

 is to be hoped that the notes will someday be collected and grouped accord- 

 ing to allied subjects. 



Movable Schools of Agriculture. A plan published as circular 79, Office 

 of Experiment Stations, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. It proposes sending 

 the instructors to the students — the farmers, their wives and daughters,, 

 and the country-school teachers. Several agricultural colleges have tried 

 the idea, but more organization seems useful. 



