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And the Director of Nature Study in the Los Angeles public schools has 

 a nalui'c study council, with representatives from each school, meeting 

 at regular intervals. So the j'oung people of Los Angeles are receiving 

 encouragement in their natural history studies. The young people in 

 otlier places should be offered similar opportunities. 



The farmers' clubs are informal associations of groups of people in a 

 community, for co-operation, for improvement of themselves, their 

 homes and the community in general. LTnder proper leadership every 



comnuinitv, rural and urban, should havi' such clubs, with definite aims 



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and lines of work and study; individual initiative and responsibility 

 encouraged and thus a strong organization built up. Besides the strictly 

 utilitarian uses of such organizations — schools, roads, churches, etc. — 

 natural history studies should be included and sections of the club 

 formed for such purposes, and they would thus be an aid to the State 

 Commission in diff'using useful knoAvledge, besides cultivating the 

 aesthetic side of such studies. 



I believe it should be the duty of the State Commission to encourage 

 ^nd establish clubs in different parts of the State. It would further the 

 horticultural interests of the commonwealth and create a happy, con- 

 tented and studious population, and counteract the tendency to the 

 current cheap amusements. 



Watching and studying the wonderful facts and processes of animal 

 and plant life, injurious and beneficial insects, fungi, etc., would be an 

 education, recreation and amusement. — Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., Pasa- 

 dena, Cal. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL EXPLORER FOR INSECTARY. 



We are glad to announce the appointment of ^Ir. Henry L. Viereck of 

 the University of Kansas as foreign collector of beneficial insects. 

 Mr. Viereck was for some time a specialist on the Hymenoptera at the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, later accepting the position 

 of entomological expert for Parke, Davis & Company, Detroit. In 1908 

 he accepted a position under Doctor Howard of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture as specialist on the parasitic Hymenoptera, which position 

 he held for five j^ears. He has an international reputation as an 

 authority on the hymenopterous parasites of the world. 



Mr. Viereck sailed on March 5, 1914, for Naples, Italy. He Avill devote 

 his energies during the next eighteen months to the securing of natural 

 enemies of the more important pests of California horticultural products. 

 His field of endeavor will be the Mediterranean region of Europe. — 

 Harry S. Smith. 



