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charge of special sessions at farmers' institutes. We see in the 

 clubs another way of teaching agricultural nature-study, llic pam- 

 phlet is free; apply to the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Photographs of Wild Game. Some of the most interesting photo- 

 graphs of large animals living under natural conditions are those of 

 elk reproduced in the September Country Life in America. One 

 photograph includes fifteen hundred of these animals, which in enor- 

 mous herds are said to be making their " last stand " in a great valley 

 of the Rockies, to which 20,000 to 40,000 come from the mountains 

 to pass six months of winter. 



Non-Stinging Bees. The Caucasian bees imported from Russia in 

 1902 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture are said to be so gentle 

 that they rarely sting; and a writer in the September Country Life 

 in America thinks that they will surely take the place of other races, 

 even the Italians and Carniolans which in gentleness are children's 

 pets in comparison with the common brown German bee which our 

 forefathers spread throughout this country. 



NEWS NOTES 



Nature-Study in New York City. The daily papers report that the Board 

 directed by Professor Stanley Coulter^ of Purdue University. Mrs. Corn- 

 stock, of Cornell, conducted courses at the University of California. Pro- 

 fessor Hodge, of Clark University, lectured at the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College and at the Macdonald Institute of Ontario. Dr. E. F. Bigelow, 

 of St. Nicholas, lectured in Michigan Normal Schools and at Wooster 

 University (Ohio). Courses relating to nature-study were directed by 

 Professor Stevens at the N. C. College of Agriculture ; by Dr. A. J. Grout, 

 of the Boys' High School of Brooklyn, at Hyannis (Mass.) Normal School; 

 by Professor Jackman at the University of Chicago ; by Miss Watterson 

 and M. A. Bigelow at Teachers College, Columbia University; and by 

 Professor McCready at Macdonald Institute. Advertisements indicate that 

 very many other summer schools offered special work for teachers of 

 nature-study, but specific information regarding instructors has not reached 

 this ottice. 



Nature-Study in Summer Schools. At Cornell University the work was 

 of Education has removed nature-study from the required list of studies and 

 placed it on the elective list. The difificulties of getting material, training 

 teachers and overcoming public opinion against " frills and fads " has made 

 the nature-study problem a serious one during the past two years. Obvi- 

 ously, it is not wise to force nature-study suddenly into a complex school 

 system. 



Forest Service. This is the new name of the Bureau of Forestry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. In addition to its regular work the service will 

 undertake to encourage teaching of elementary forestry in public schools. 

 Later information on this point may be expected to appear in this journal. 



