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den," Miller's "Children's Gardens"; Blanchan's "Nature's Gardens"; 

 Dugmore's "Nature and the Camera"; HemenwayV'Howto make a School 

 Garden"; Roth's "First Book of Forestry"; Robert's "The Heart of 

 the Ancient Wood" ; Roger's "Among Green Trees" ; Miller's "The Brook 

 Book"; Gibson's "Eye Spy"; Burrough's "Pepacon" ; and many others. 

 7 . A closer study of road, stream and field in my own county of Winnebago. 

 There is much of beauty in each school district which the children do not 

 yet see. If they do see it, they are like the lad who said to me a few days 

 ago (when we were discussing Bryant's "What Plant we when we Plant 

 the Apple Tree?"), in answer to the question about the beaujty of common 

 things. "We may see the beauty, but we don't think of it." This was 

 from a boy ten years old. I feel sure that teachers can get an inspiration 

 from some one or more of the above sources, which will lead them to see 

 and think more of the beauty of common things." 



The Home Gardening Association of Cleveland has issued its eighth 

 annual report in the form of a handsome booklet containing many splendid 

 half-tone illustrations of various phases of school and home gardens. 

 Most of the work of this organization is done in Cleveland, but it extends 

 its influence all over the country by means of the penny packets of seeds 

 which it sells. In 1907 the Association sold 546,946 packets, of which 

 over fifty per cent went to schools and organizations outside of Cleveland. 

 During 1 908 these packets can be secured from the Cleveland office at one 

 cent each. They offer a choice of eighteen flowers and eight vegetables. 



Anopheles in Sea Water. Dr. L. O. Howard gives in Science a summary 

 of an article by Dr. Vogel, of the Dutch East Indies, in which are the fol- 

 lowing interesting and extremely valuable conclusions: 1. There are 

 species of Anopheles which can live very well in sea water. 2. These 

 mosquitoes lay eggs which develop even in sea water which has been 

 evaporated to half its original quantity. 3. These larvae in the gradually 

 evaporating pools of sea water can stand an evaporation of the water to 

 one-third of its bulk, but do not appear to transform to adults if the con- 

 centration be greater than this. 4. The larvae coming from eggs laid in 

 sea water of high concentration can accomplish their entire metamorphoses 

 in almost the normal time. This is true even when the water has such 

 concentration that the development of larvae originally hatching in un- 

 concentrated sea water, would be retarded by this salt water. 



Not only are these observations of great interest as bearing upon the 

 health of certain sea-coasts, but they have an important bearing in pos- 

 sibly explaining the cases of malaria observed upon sailing vessels that 

 have not made port for months, since it indicates the possibility that 

 Anopheles may breed in the bilge-water of such vessels. In such cases it 

 is only necessary that one of the sailors should have gametes in his blood 

 in order to start an epidemic of malaria aboard the vessel. The bad 

 reputation which the coral islands of farther India have is explained by 

 Doctor Vogel's observations, since so many cases of malaria are observed 

 along the coast during the dry season when all the rivers and fresh-water 

 streams are dried up. 



