1 90 THE NA TU RE-STUD Y RE VIE W [3:6- sept., 1907 



cooperation in the work of preparing teachers for nature-study and elementary 

 agricuhure. The Teachers College Annual Announcement calls attention to 

 a two-year major (Junior and Senior years) in nature-study and agriculture, 

 leading to the Bachelor's degree and a special diploma. The program of 

 studies requires courses in the elements of the sciences, in general elementary 

 methods, in the special methods of nature-study and elementary agriculture, 

 and the equivalent of at least two summer terms devoted to the study of 

 principles of agriculture at Cornell University or approved courses elsewhere. 

 Under this arrangement a student might spend one year at Cornell studying 

 principles of agriculture and the sciences and the second year at Teachers 

 College devoted chiefly to educational problems. More details concerning 

 the plan will be announced in a special circular soon to be issued by the 

 Department of Biology of Teachers College, New York. 



Miss Mary Perle Anderson, graduate student in the Department of 

 Botany, Columbia University, has been appointed instructor in biology and 

 nature-study in the Horace Mann School of Teachers College, Columbia 

 University. Miss Anderson will also take charge of the critic teaching in 

 connection with the Teachers College courses in high-school biology and 

 elementary-school nature-study. 



Professor E. R. Downing, of the Marquette, Mich., normal school 

 will spend a year of absence in eastern universities and in Europe. 



New nature-study books are being prepared for publication by Pro- 

 fessor Holtz, of the Mankato, Minn., normal school ; by Mr. G. H. Traf- 

 ton, of the Passaic, N. J., schools ; and by Dr. Horace Cummings, of Salt 

 Lake City. 



An impOSter has for several months been working among nature-study 

 teachers in New York and New Jersey. His specialty is paid-in-advance 

 subscriptions to a magazine "Birds and all Nature," including sixty colored 

 plates. Evidently he is trading on the good reputation of the well-known 

 Chicago magazine, but he pretends to represent the *• Nature-Study Com- 

 pany, I 135 Broadway, N. Y." — a firm unknown to postoffice officials and 

 not found in any directory. Many letters of complaint have reached the 

 office of The Review, and they all tell essentially the same story : The agent 

 signs his name F. W. Cooley, is a Quaker, about 70 years old, gray hair, 

 blue eyes, slender form, not well dressed (probably he can afford better 

 clothing now), and minus two fingers on his right hand. Even an amateur 

 Sherlock Holmes should be able to identify him at sight after reading this 

 description. 



