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Instructions for collecting and preserving valuable Lepidoptera for scien- 

 tific purposes, J. Sinclair (Los Angeles, Cal.: Author, 1916, pp. 80, figs. 61). — 

 The instructions, given in simple language and avoiding technical terms, are 

 followed by cuts and descriptions of valuable butterflies and moths, as well as 

 of a number of common ones which are very similar to them in appearance. 



Poultry study for schools, J. W. Hungate (Dept. Agr. State Normal School 

 [Cheney, Wash.], Bui. A, No. 5 (1916), pp. 19, figs. 7). — The author discusses 

 the value of poultry study, poultry growing as a school project, teaching poultry 

 raising to school children through clubs, poultry enemies, and the prevention of 

 diseases, and outlines 12 exercises. A list of reference books is added. 



Outlines in home economics, Neale S. Knowles (Dept. Pub. Instr. loira 

 Circ. Jf (1915), pp. 95, pis. 6, figs. 3). — The author outlines a half-year course, 

 consisting of 90 lessons, in home economics for high schools. Five periods a 

 week are to be devoted to the work, viz, two lecture periods and one sewing 

 period of 45 minutes each, and at least two laboratory periods of 90 minutes 

 each. Lists of individual and class equipment and references to literature are 

 included. 



Outline of domestic art work for the hig'li school with bibliography, 

 Martha Patterson (Ala. Girls Tech. Inst. Bui., n. ser.. No. SI (1915), pp. 34)-— 

 These outlines in domestic art work are not Intended as a course of study, but 

 simply to furnish classified topics of fundamental work from which courses can 

 be organized. Extended annotated bibliographies on domestic art and domestic 

 science, the latter compiled by Louisa J. Keys, are included, together with lists 

 of illustrative material and its sources. 



Home projects for agriculture and home economics, Mrs. E. M. Barrett 

 (Texas Dept. Agr. Bui. Ifi 11916], pp. 32). — This bulletin contains programs, 

 rules, and regulations for and contests in a number of home projec-ts, rules of 

 the home credit system, a constitution and by-laws for the junior farmers' in- 

 stitute, and a list of free bulletins to be used in home project work. 



Course " school-home projects, 1916 (Chicago: Co. Supt. Schools, 1916, pp. 

 15). — This pamphlet gives general directions for school-home project work, and 

 outlines courses in field and garden, business, cooking and sewing, poultry, 

 music, and cow testing school-home projects for the pupils over 10 yeai"s of age 

 in the public schools of Conk County, 111., all of v.hom now take a course in 

 school-home projects as a part of their regular school work. 



A first book of school gardening, A. Logan (London: MacmUlan and Co. 

 Ltd., 1915, pp. VII+151, figs. 58). — The aim of this book is to in.struct pupils 

 between the ages of 12 and 16 in the fundamental principles of soil manage- 

 ment and plant growth and to provide practical instruction through the school 

 garden. Review questions and practical exercises are added to each chapter. 



School gardens (Agr. Oaz. Canada, 3 (1916), No. 2, pp. 158-176, figs. 14).— 

 Brief reports are given on the progress of school and home garden worlc in 

 the Provinces of Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Al- 

 berta, and British Columbia. 



School fairs (Agr. Gas. Canada, 3 (1916), No. 1, pp. 77-88, figs. 5).— This 

 is a series of reports on the progress of the school-fair movement in the Prov- 

 inces of Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and 

 British Columbia, 



MISCEILANEOTTS. 



Twenty-sixth Annual Report of Arizona Station, 1915 (Arizona Sta. Rpt. 

 1915, pp. 505-581, pi. 1, figs. 12). — This contains the organization list, an admin- 

 istrative report by the director on the work and publications of the station, a 



