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25-26-27, considerable attention will be given to agricultural 

 education. A Round Table Conference will be held at which 

 will be discussed among other things "Cooperation between the 

 State Agricultural College and the State Normal School in 

 Training Teachers for Elementary Agriculture" and "Cooperation 

 between the U. S. Department of Agriculture and State School 

 Authoritie ; in promoting Agriculture in the Public Schools." 



Arrangements have also been completed to organize at the 

 Februarv meeting a "Department of Rural and Agricultural 

 Education" coordinate with other departments of the National 

 Education Association. Permission to organize this Depart- 

 ment was given by the Board of Directors at the meeting in Los 

 Angeles in July, 1907. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture. D. J. Crosby. 



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The last number of The Review, the end of the third volume, 

 has led many readers to write letters offering congratulations to 

 the editor, who takes this opportunity of dividing the honors 

 with the members of the editorial committee and the dozens of 

 contributors and advisors whose co-operation has made The 

 Review successful educationally. Anyone who has carefully 

 read all the articles printed in the twenty-four numbers since 

 Januarv, 1905, must recognize that the combined work of the 

 many contributors has made a splendid record of nature-study 

 as it has been developing in recent years. In short, the magazine 

 has been true to the prospectus issued in 1904 which announced 

 that "there will be timely notes and reviews on important new 

 literature relating to all phases of nature-study, news notes, 

 short articles and notes on the materials and methods involved in 

 the practical side of the teacher's work, queries and answers, and 

 correspondence and discussions. In brief, it will be attempted 

 to keep readers in touch with the latest and best of theory and 

 practice in nature-study." 



The organization of the American Nature-Study Society and 

 the adoption of The Review as the official organ makes the 

 future of the journal assured. The co-operation which has made 

 the journal successful will surely lead to far better results in the 

 work of . the new nature-study society. Individual ownership 



