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Under the title Inoculating the Ground, ' ' Mr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, 

 in The Century magazine for October this year gives an appreciative 

 account of the excellent work of Dr. George V. Moore, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, in elaborating an efficient method of cultivating the 

 organisms of leguminous root tubercles, and of soil inoculation. The 

 subject is plainly presented and the paper is well illustrated. Its accessi- 

 bility should make it a reliable piece of reference reading for students. 

 A good portrait of Dr. Moore is also published. 



A SERIES of articles by B. M. Davis under the title "Studies on the 

 Plant Cell " are appearing in The Aynericaii Naturalist. Numbers I, II, 

 and III appeared in the May, June, and July-August, 1904, issues respec- 

 tively. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The first number of The Nature- Study Review — the new educational 

 journal dealing with nature-study, "elementary science," and agricul- 

 ture; edited by L. H. Bailey, H. W. Fairbanks, C. F. Hodge, J. F. 

 Woodhull, and M. A. Bigelow — is now in press for publication before 

 January. The leading article is a symposium on " What is nature-study, 

 and its relation to natural science," by H. W. Fairbanks, C. F. Hodge, 

 T. H. Macbride, F. L. Stevens, and M. A. Bigelow. Other articles are : 

 "Physical nature-study," by J. F. Woodhull ; " Nature-study and ele- 

 mentary agriculture in Canada " ; " Some recent criticisms of nature- 

 study " ; " Agriculture in Southern schools, " by C. W. Burkett ; ' ' School- 

 gardens," by H. D. Hemenway ; "Ant-nests for the schoolroom; and 

 "Book reviews and notes on recent literature." In the second number 

 a series of short papers will deal with ' ' aims and values of nature-study 

 for elementary schools." After this a series of articles will discuss the 

 relations of the various phases of nature-study — biological, physical, 

 geographical, agricultural — to each other and to related subjects in the 

 elementary-school curriculum. The following papers are expected to 

 introduce the subjects for discussion : Professor Dodge, of Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, and Dr. Fairbanks, of the Editorial Com- 

 mittee, on "Geography and its relation to nature-study"; Professor 

 W. S. Hall, of Northwestern University, and M. A. Bigelowon "Physi- 

 ology and its relation to nature-study" ; Principal Baldwin, of Hyannis 

 (Mass.) State Normal, on " Nature-study and manual training" ; Dr. 

 Carrington, StateSuperintendentof Schools of Missouri, on "Agriculture 

 and nature-study," and other papers on this subject by Professors Bailey, 

 Burkett, Hays, Stevens, and Mrs. Comstock ; and Dr. Katherine Dopp, 

 of Chicago, on " Nature-study and primitive-life studies." Many papers 

 on problems outside of the above series and a large number of short 

 papers and notes on the practical side of nature-study teaching are in 

 preparation. 



