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Vol. 11 January, 1915 No. 1 



The Annual Meeting and Election of Officers 



The opening session of the meeting was held in the Zoology 

 Building at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a roomful of 

 the members of the American Nature-Study Society who greeted 

 Mrs. Comstock as she rose to give the address as retiring president. 

 True, the room was not a very large one and yet it was as generous 

 a representation of our membership as has been present at a winter 

 meeting for many years. The address which appears in this issue 

 was heard with greater pleasure than our readers can have in 

 reading it for in cold print it lacks, somewhat, of the charming 

 personality which has made its writer so efficient a president these 

 two years past. 



Following this address M. A. Bigelow of Teachers College (the 

 initials were incorrectly given in the December number), gave a 

 paper on the Relation Between the Introductory Science of the 

 High School and Nature-Study and Biology. This was provoca- 

 tive of a good deal of discussion. It will appear in full in a later 

 number of the Review. Mr. C. H. Robison of the Upper Mont- 

 clair, (N. J.) Normal School led the discussion which continued for 

 more than an hour, many of those present taking part. The after- 

 noon meeting was a joint session with the School Garden Associa- 

 tion of America. It was held in the Botany Building to get the 

 use of a lantern. Mr. V. E. Kilpatrick, President of the 

 School Garden Association, was in the chair. Commissioner 

 Claxton could not be present but Miss Ethel Gowans, one of the 

 able aids of the Commissioner in the newly established division of 

 school gardens, outlined in a very clear way the work they are 

 trying to push. The Commissioner desires to aid teachers to fit 

 themselves for school garden work, to stimulate garden work 



