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p.m. The National Education Association will begin its meet- 

 ings on Monday. June the 29th and will close on July the 3d. It 

 has seemed advisable to place the Nature-Study Society meeting 

 at the close of the N. E. A. meetings because most members of 

 the Nature-Study Society will wish to take part in the N. E. A 

 meetings, especially in the Departments of Science and of Rural 

 Education. Since so much material of interest to workers in 

 nature-study will be presented in these Departments of the 

 N. E. A., it has seemed advisable not to attempt a regular meet- 

 ing of the A. N.-S. S., but rather to call together the members of 

 the Society for a conference on one afternoon only. This con- 

 ference will have the advantage of bringing the Society into 

 touch with many educators who can not attend the annual 

 meetings of the scientific societies; and at the same time a con- 

 ference will avoid many of the disadvantages of a more extensive 

 meeting. Also, with the short time for preparation, it would not 

 be possible to prepare for the program which the officers of the 

 A. N.-S. S. are planning for the annual meeting in December. 



The topic for discussion at the conference on July the 3d will 

 be the Training of Teachers of Nature-Study and Elementarv 

 Science in Normal Schools and Colleges and the discussion will be 

 opened by six or seven short papers, not to exceed fifteen minutes 

 in length, presenting the work done in some of the best schools 

 and colleges. This conference may be regarded as preliminary 

 to a much more extensive discussion and study of the same sub- 

 ject under the direction of a committee appointed by the Council 

 of the A. N.-S. S. to consider and report on the training of 

 teachers of nature-study and elementary science. It is hoped 

 that the committee may make its first preliminary report next 

 December and then carry on the work for a term of years. 



Members of the A. N.-S. S. who expect to go to the N. E. A. 

 meeting at Cleveland are requested to inform the secretary of 

 the Societv. Those wishing programs of the N. E. A. meetings 

 may obtain them direct form the Secretary of the N. E. A. at 

 Winona, Minnesota, or through the Secretary of the A. N.-S. S. 

 New York City Section of A. N.-S. S. 

 A meeting of this section will be held at the American Museum 

 of Natural History on Friday, May 8 at 8:30 p. m. The meeting 

 will be devoted to a survey of the existing conditions which affect 

 the teaching of nature-study (in the broadest sense) in the 

 elementarv schools of Greater New York. 



