THE NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



PLANS FOR FUTURE NUMBERS 



As stated in the prospectus and as illustrated in this and the preceding 

 number, it will be the aim to make each issue present a wide range of 

 material dealing with all phases of nature-study. Beginning in the next 

 nuriiber, a series of articles will discuss the relations of the various 

 phases of nature-study — biological, physical, geographical, agricultural — 

 to each other and to related subjects in the elementary-school curriculum. 

 Papers in these lines have been promised by collaborators and others. The 

 following papers are expected to introduce the subjects for discussion: 

 Professor Dodge, of Teachers College, Columbia University, and Dr. 

 Fairbanks, of the Editorial Committee, on " Geography and its relation to 

 Nature-Study " ; Professor W. S. Hall, of Northwestern University, and 

 M. A. Bigelow, on "Physiology and its relation to Nature-Study"; Prin- 

 cipal Baldwin, of Hyannis (Mass.) State Normal, on "Nature-Study and 

 Manual Training " ; Dr. Carrington, State Superintendent of Schools of 

 Missouri, on " Agriculture and Nature-Study," and other papers on this 

 subject by Professors Bailey, Burkett, Hays, Stevens, and Mrs. Comstock; 

 Dr. Katherine Dopp, of Chicago, on '' Nature-Study and Primitive-Life 

 Studies " ; and we hope to have papers on " Nature-Study and Elementary 

 Art." 



Many papers outside of the above series are in preparation ; we have 

 space to mention only a few : Mrs. Comstock, on " Attitude of Teachers in 

 Teaching about Life and Death," and on " Books in Nature-Study " ; Pro- 

 fessor Hodge, on " The Human Interest in Nature-Study " and " Bird 

 Studies " ; Professor Bessey, on " Nature-Study as it was taught thirty years 

 ago"; Professor Charles, of De Kalb, 111., on "The Spirit of Nature- 

 Study " and " The Nature Calendar " ; Dr. E. F. Bigelow, of St. Nicholas, 

 on various phases of out-of-door nature-study and practical studies with 

 plants and animals ; Professor Woodhull, on " Lessons in Physical Nature- 

 Study " ; Professor Croswell, of Los Angeles, on " Why some School- 

 Gardens are Failures " ; Miss A. Blood, of New York City, on " Difficulties 

 of Nature-Study in City Schools ",; Miss Gallup, of the Children's Museum, 

 Brooklyn, on the work of that institution as suggesting plans for school 

 collections ; Miss Laura Underbill, of Horace Mann School, New York 

 City, on " Bird Study in a Fifth Grade " ; a series of illustrated papers on 

 " School-Gardens " ; another on " Lesson Plans " by several writers ; and 

 " Correlation between Physical and Biological Nature-Study " by M. A. 

 Bigelow. In addition to these papers, we have promises from a large num- 

 ber of educators and men of science who have contributed to scientific 

 education that their future addresses and other papers bearing on nature- 

 study will be contributed to The Review. 



We have suggested only the leading plans for the near future. It must 

 be obvious that The Review will be indispensable to all who are inter- 

 ested in nature-study and the elerpentary sciences. 



Since the above was set in type many voluntary suggestions and answers 

 to correspondence have more than doubled the list of strong and interest- 

 ing papers which will be published as rapidly as space permits. 



