804 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The promotion and management of the exhibition is in the hands of the executive 

 committee of the Nature Study Exhibition Association, of which Sir John Cockburn 

 is chairman and John C. Medd honorary secretary. The exhibition will include 9 

 groups, comprising exhibits from agricultural or horticultural colleges and schools, 

 experimental farms, agricultural departments of universities an 1 university colleges; 

 secondary schools (public and private); primary day schools (public and private); 

 continuation schools; normal training colleges and day training departments of the 

 university colleges and public teachers' schools; schools for the deaf and blind; home 

 office schools and workhouse schools; horticultural and other societies, as well as 

 individuals that encourage nature study or nature lore as a subject of education, and 

 exhiljits from the colonies of Great Britain and from the United States. Each group 

 may include any or all of the following 5 classes of exhibits for which certificates of 

 merit or medals will be offered: (1) Statistical information — printed reports, leaflets, 

 etc., bearing on nature study, natural history object lessons, school gardens, school 

 excursions, and similar topics, and catalogues of books suitable for a school library on 

 these subjects; (2) pictorial illustrations — plans and photographs of school gardens, 

 school excursions, schoolrooms in which pupils are at work on nature-study topics, 

 etc.; (3) organization — courses of instruction in nature study; (4) apparatus for 

 teaching — diagrams, apparatus, models in clay, plaster, etc.; (5) work done by 

 pupils — drawings, models, paintings, notebooks, drawing books, collections of plants 

 and insects, etc. The funds necessary for defraying the expenses of the exhibition, 

 including prizes and medals, are being raised liy voluntary contributions from mem- 

 bers of the Nature Study Exhibition Association. 



The New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station has begun the pul)- 

 lication of nature-study leaflets, the first number of which, the Pollination of Plants 

 (pp. 12, figs. 10), by C. M. Weed, appeared in March, 1902. This leaflet is intended 

 for teachers, to show them "how easily they can utilize in the spring the subject of 

 the relation of flowers to wind and insects for nature study in any grade above the 

 fourth." The examples chosen are familiar trees, grasses, and wild flowers. 



In Nature for February 20, 1902, appears a review of the first number of the Nature 

 Study Journal, published by the Southeastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent, and 

 maintained by a society of teachers known as the Nature Study Society. "The object 

 of the journal," as set forth in the preface and introduction, "is mainly to facilitate 

 the teaching of ' nature knowledge ' in rural schools by enabling the teachers to inter- 

 change ideas and schemes of instruction and to be in communication with the Wye 

 College as a central organization." It is to be largely devoted to the publication of 

 specimen lessons, the first number containing two such lessons : ' ' Leaves and their 

 veining," l)y H. Brooker, of the Ewhurst National School, and "Dodges of nature," 

 by A. E. Chandler, of Puttenham. 



The school garden as an educational feature m the public school is the subject of 

 much discussion, both in the United States and countries of Europe. Nature for 

 February 20, 1902, contains an account of a conference on school gardens held Feb- 

 ruary 15 at Reading College under the auspices of the Berkshire County technical 

 education committee, in which is pointed out the prominence given to outdoor train- 

 ing in the schools of Great Britain and the Continent. In this country school gar- 

 dens have not received so much attention as in Europe, but the movement for their 

 general establishment is gaining ground. As an evidence of this we have only to 

 refer to the programme of the fifth annual conference of the Eastern Public Educa- 

 tion Association at Baltimore, May 1 to 3. One-half of the programme is given up 

 to papers and discussions on the subject of "School and home gardens for children 

 as an opportunity for industrial and aesthetic training." 



Organization of Pacific Northwest Ec'ONO>ric Entomologists. — The entomolo- 

 gists of the experiment stations of Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon met 



