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J. Ilensley. — Make it practically compulsory, it should be used in 

 every school. The teachers should be informed for immediate sur- 

 roundings. 



Prof. AVliitten. — This year we have in our university course for 

 teachers many of our best workers from among the country schools. If 

 a few teachers become interested then a nature course can be made part 

 of the institute work. Xo revolution is sudden in educational lines, but 

 always gradual. 



L. C'hubbuck. — Many years ago the present state superintendent of 

 schools tliroAV off a:^ impracticable any plan for introducing nature study, 

 it would have no success in schools, he said. At the next trial he said 

 there was no time; and at the next he took an interest, until now he 

 promises to help spread the movement. I join in commending Prof. 

 Stevens' report, and indorse unreservedly what he says. All we need 

 to do is to unite under Prof. Stevens. 



J. Hensley made a motion that the committee on Horticultural 

 Education with the one from the Teachers' Association be instructed to 

 go on and prepare a plan and recommend such to the society at its next 

 meeting. The motion was carried. 



Upon call of the chairman of the committee on Horticultural 

 Education, G. B. Lamm of Sedalia, a meeting was held in the parlors 

 of the hotel, the matter of publishing a book was thoroughly discussed in 

 all its bearings, and it was finally agreed upon by the committee that 

 such a work should have the best of experts in every department. This 

 being a time of specialists, a specialist should prepare each different 

 department to make it authorative and of any practical value. Such a 

 work would be more than any one man should undertake, and it should 

 contain so much information in all lines of work, practical growing and 

 cultivation, insects, fungus diseases, botany, chemistry, geology, etc., 

 that it seemed to the committee unadvisable to attempt the preparation 

 of such a work at this time. 



L. A. Goodman, Sec'y. 



