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Bertha M. Chapman, for several years supervisor of nature-study at 

 Oakland, Cal., has been appointed instructor in Professor 0. W. Caldwell's 

 department at the School of Education in the University of Chicago. 



The Ohio number will be published for April. It seemed best to ad- 

 vance the present number, containing articles on gardening, to March. 



"The Guide to Nature" (and to nature literature) is announced as a new 

 monthly magazine for adults, "devoted to commonplace nature with un- 

 common interest." It will be the official organ of the Agassiz Association 

 and edited by Edward F. Bigelow, well known as editor of the science de- 

 partment in St. Nicholas . The price is $i .50 a year. Publication office is 

 at Stamford, Conn. Write for prospectus. 



The following interesting note occurs in the Prospectus under the head- 

 ing "Pedagogical": 



"Down in your heart, haven't you become tired of so much one-sided- 

 ness in all this talk of 'nature-study' for the child in school ? Is it possible, 

 is it reasonable to suppose, that this beautiful world is so much more im- 

 portant for the little child than for the youth and the adult as one would 

 infer from the deluge of books on the subject, and from the articles in the 

 periodicals devoted to 'nature-study?' It is not reasonable, for we should 

 never outgrow our childhood in this kindergarten of God, never cease to 

 wonder and admire", and to learn. 



For a few years the theory, the pedagogy, the arguments pro and con of 

 nature-study in the schools, of nature-study that centers in the child, have 

 been excellently presented in The Nature-Study Review, and in connec- 

 tion with that publication there has recently been organized The American 

 Xature-Study Association [Society.] All this is from the point of view of 

 pedagogy and the child. The Guide proposes to supplement and aid by 

 materials from the point of view of the teacher. Xature-study is progres-r 

 sing. Yet some teachers in their enthusiasm often ask why it does not 

 progress faster, more generally, and come more extensively into general 

 adoption. There surely is no lack of talk, of books, of theory, of argu- 

 ment on nature-study for the child. The greatest need at the present 

 time is, in the opinion of the editor of The Guide, more teachers with 

 greater enthusiasm, more teachers who believe and live the creed that 

 nature-study and love of nature are in themselves worth while, regardless 

 of any teaching to a child. In other words, to teacher and general public 

 knowledge and love of nature should be more an end than a means." 



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