48 THE NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [i, i, jan. 1905 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



[Editorial Note. — All articles in The Review are open to 

 discussion, and readers are invited to send their contributions to' 

 this department as soon as possible after the publication of the 

 paper to w^hich reference is made. The editors must reserve the 

 right to select and abridge if space is limited, and to modify 

 criticisms which tend to be so personal or acrimonious as not to 

 be helpful. The weak points of the nature-study movement de- 

 serve free discussion, but in the spirit and form of good friendship 

 for all persons who may represent opposing views.] 



NEWS NOTES 



[The help of all readers is needed in keeping The Review in touch with 

 local developments of nature-study. Information regarding important 

 changes in local movements, notes or manuscripts of papers read at local 

 conventions, literature designed primarily for local circulation — these sug- 

 gest the nature of information which will be useful to the editorial man- 

 agers, especially to the writer of this page devoted to " News Notes."] 



Nature-Study Libraries. Hampton Institute has begun a system of 

 traveling nature-study libraries for Southern teachers. A set of twelve 

 books is loaned for a school term at a rental of fifty cents. 



New Nature-Study Society. North Carolina teachers of nature-study 

 have recently completed the organization of a state association. The N. C. 

 Nature-Study Society. The officers are : The State Superintendent of 

 Schools, Dr. Joyner, President, and Professor Stevens, of the Agricultural 

 College, Secretary. A board of advisers, composed of specialists in each 

 branch of science, will answer questions by teachers ; local branches will be 

 formed in schools ; and a series of leaflets will be published. 



Migrating Birds. Of interest to students of birds, and, indeed, to all 

 who are interested in birds, is the report that a law intended to prevent 

 the killing of certain species of birds will probably be passed in Mexico. 

 This will certainly protect some of our migrants which are wantonly de- 

 stroyed in their winter homes. 



Death of Dr. Muldrew. We regret to announce the death of Dr. W. H. 

 Muldrew, Dean of Macdonald Institute, the new Canadian school of 

 nature-study which is referred to elsewhere in this issue. He was one of 

 the collaborators named in the prospectus of this journal. 



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