138 THE NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [5:5— may, 1909 



The Society welcomes to its membership teachers and others 

 who are interested in nature-study (in the best and widest 

 sense) for schools. The first directory of members was published 

 in March 1909. The annual membership fee is one dollar, 

 payable before February i, or upon election to membership in 

 case of new members. 



The constitution provides for an official journal, The Nature- 

 Study Review, and the annual subscription price ($1.00) of 

 this journal is included in the membership fee of the Society 

 ($1.00). 



Council for 1908: President — L. H. Bailey (N. Y.); Vice- 

 Presidents— Q,. F. Hodge (Mass.), F. L. Stevens (N. C), V. L. 

 Kellogg (Cal.), W. Lochhead (Canada), F. L. Charles (111.); 

 Directors— D. J. Crosby (D.C.), C. R. Mann (111.), S. Coulter 

 (Ind.), H. W. Fairbanks (Cal.), M. F. Guyer (O.), O. W. Caldwell 

 (111.), G. H. Trafton (N. J.), F. L. Clements (Minn.), Ruth Mar- 

 shall (Neb.), E. R. Downing (Mich.); Secretary — M. A. Bigelow 

 (N.Y.). 



Council for 1909: President — C. F. Hodge (Mass.); Vice- 

 Presidents— V . L. Kellogg (Cal.), F. L. Stevens (N. C), W. Loch- 

 head (Quebec), O. W. Caldwell (111.), B. M. Davis (O.) ; Directors 

 — Crosby, Mann, Coulter, Fairbanks and Guyer continued from 

 1908; elected for two years— G. H. Trafton (N. J.), F. L. Holtz 

 (N. Y.), J. Dearness (Ontario), Anna B. Comstock (N. Y.), Ruth 

 Marshall (Wis.), Secretary- -M. A. Bigelow (N. Y.). 



The Society can work most economically and efficiently 

 through publications, and for convenience in keeping complete 

 sets as well as economy in printing and mailing these are issued in 

 the official journal. It is therefore important that the Society 

 should be able to increase the circulation of this journal and to use 

 extra copies freely in extending the work. For this purpose of 

 publications there is needed at least $1000 per year which means 

 1250 members' fees, reserving 20% for necessary expenses of the 

 Society not included in publications. The present membership 

 does not yield this income and unless a great increase can be made 

 this year the work of the Society must be hampered by necessary 

 reduction of the editions of the official journal to the minimum 

 of copies required for members and other subscribers, and also 

 by publishing four or five instead of nine numbers annually. 

 That this would be a misfortune is the opinion of more than one 



