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Editorial 



It is with many misgivings that the newly elected editor of the 

 Nature-Study Review assumes her duties ; and her first impulse 

 is to send a S. O. S. call for help to everybody interested in nature- 

 study, asking them so send notes upon interesting happenings 

 and accoimts of their work, to be pubUshed in the Review; 

 the call also asks for private letters, explaining how the Review 

 may become of more real use to teachers. 



Dr. Downing in his nearly six years as editor has developed the 

 Nature-Study Review to its present state of efficienc}^ and 

 excellence. He has always held a high standard as to the scientific 

 quahty of its contributions, and as to its practical helpfulness to 

 teachers; it is the earnest desire of the new editor that this stand- 

 ard shall not be lowered. 



Sometime since, there was an informal meeting of several of the 

 directors of the Nature-Study Review and there was a consensus 

 of opinion that there should be in each number of the magazine 

 direct aids for teaching, good natural history based on original 

 observations, articles on civic improvement where such work 

 impinges on nature, practical pedagogical discussions, garden 

 work when combined with nature-study, some special helps for 

 kindergarten and first grade, and in each number a little poetry. 

 All the items in this plan seem good and an effort will be made to 

 carry it out. ^T, 



For one thing the present editor is deeply grateful,— she is 

 to have the aid of associate editors, Professor J. A. Drushel, 

 Director of Nature-study in Harris Teachers College in St. Louis, 

 Mo., whose interest in the Review has always been both keen 



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