THE 



NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



DEVOTED TO ALL PHASES OF NATURE STUDY IN SCHOOLS 



Vol DECEMBER, 1909 Xo. 9 



EDITOR'S NOTE 



With this number the fifth volume and year of The Nature- 

 Studv Review is completed. The next volume will be under 

 the editorial direction of Professor Fred L. Charles, of the De- 

 partment of Agricultural Education in the University of Illinois, 

 who is already well known to readers of The Review as editor of 

 the Illinois Number (December, 1908), and as author of many 

 leaflets and bulletins issued from the De Kalb (Illinois) State 

 Normal School. 



After January the office of The Review and of the American 

 Nature-Study Society will be at Urbana, 111. In order to lighten 

 the new editor-secretary's work for 1910, the present secretary 

 has sent out letters asking members to co-operate by paying 

 annual dues to the present office early in January so that the 

 mailing lists can be completed for 19 10 before transfer of the 

 records. 



The retiring editor takes this opportunity to express gratitude 

 for the support and encouragement which has been given bv all 

 the leaders, both national and local, of the nature-study move- 

 ment in the United States and Canada. It would be a pleasant 

 labor to continue for another term of five years the duties of 

 editor and secretary with such co-operation as has been given by 

 numerous friends of The Review and of the American Nature- 

 Study Society; but rapidly increasing pressure of other and 

 necessary work has made it desirable, and especiallv more fair 

 to the interests of the Society, that plans be made for transferring 

 the work of editor and secretary to other hands. Accordingly, 

 the Council of the Society has unanimously nominated Professor 

 Charles for the combined office of secretary and editor; and for 



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