790 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



ing purposes, a course in domestic science, two teachers employed for 10 

 months each, teaching, respectively, agriculture and domestic science during the 

 term and supervising it during part of the vacation, and agricultural and 

 domestic science apparatus to the value of at least $100, for consolidated ele- 

 mentary schools of the first grade. Price lists of agricultural apparatus are 

 included. 



The nature-study situation in the elementary schools of Illinois for 1914- 

 1915, Florence G. Billig {Nature-Study Rev., 11 {1915), No. 5, pp. 255-259).— 

 Data received from 99 schools are summarized and show that 83 of the schools 

 reporting are teaching nature study. Of these 49 pursue organized courses, 

 10 have nature study supervisors, 49 teach nature study throughout the year, 

 43 teach it in grades 1-8, 9 in grades 1-6, and 14 in grades 1-4, the average time 

 devoted to the subject being 50 minutes a week. Twenty-six schools include 

 physiology in the nature study course. The author concludes, in so far as 

 these schools are representative of the work done in Illinois, that nature study 

 has a definite place in the curricula of the elementary schools of Illinois, that 

 there is uniformity in the courses of study, and that physiology is considered a 

 part of the nature-study course. 



Sectional report of commissioner regarding agricultural schools and their 

 place in a coordinated system of education in Great Britain, the Continent 

 of Europe, etc., A. C. Cabmichael {Sydney, N. S. W.: Min. Pub. Instr., 1915, 

 pp. 19). — This is a report by the minister of public instruction of New South 

 Wales on the agricultural schools and their place in a coordinated system of 

 education, based upon personal observations, in Switzerland, Gennany, France, 

 and Great Britain ; on features of agricultural instruction in Denmark, Ireland, 

 Canada, and the United States; and on the agricultural education require- 

 ments of New South Wales comprising (1) nature study and school gardening 

 in the elementary schools for children up to their thirteenth year; (2) the 

 rural consolidated day schools with an agricultural " top," for pupils from 

 14 to 17 years of age, and possessing about 5 acres of land, to serve as the ele- 

 mentai-y school and the social center for the district and to give instruction in 

 home economics and the elements of agricultural science with a certain amount 

 of practical work, each pupil working a portion of his father's farm; (3) the 

 agricultural high school, outside of town areas, with from 80 to 100 acres of 

 land, mainly for residential pupils from 14 to 17 years of age, offering a 2-year 

 course in agriculture leading to the agricultural college, one-third of the time 

 being devoted to science with special reference to farm needs and one-third to 

 field work; (4) the agricultural college; and (5) the university school of 

 agriculture. 



Tourteenth annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland {Dcpt. Agr. and Tech. Instr. Ireland, Ann. 

 Gen. Rpt., U {1913-14), pp. VI +182+3^8). —This is a report on the depart- 

 ment's administration and funds and on details of its work during 1913-14, 

 including agricultural and technical instruction. 



Agricultural education and research {Rpt. Bd. Agr. Scot., 3 {1914), PP- 

 XXIV-XXXII). — This is a report on progress in 1914 in agricultural education 

 and research work under the control of the Board of Agriculture of Scotland. 



A list of agricultural and horticultural oflacials, institutions, and asso- 

 ciations {Dept. Landb., Nijv. en Handel [Netherlands}, Verslag. en Meded. Dir. 

 Landb. No. 2 {1915), pp. 125). — This list contains the organization and person- 

 nel of the Direction of Agriculture of the Department of Agriculture, Industry, 

 and Commerce, including agricultural education and research institutions, agri- 

 cultural and horticultural winter schools, itinerant instructors, and associations 

 in The Netherlands. 



