NATURE STUDY NEWS 



A Chicago Section op the A. N.-S. S. is among the prob- 

 abilities for the coming spring. Plans arc on foot to hold an 

 organization meeting at the Chicago Academy of Sciences dur- 

 ing the latter part of March. 



The National (Committee on Agricultiral Education 

 met with the Department of Superintendence of the N. E. A. 

 at Indianapolis, Ind., Monday evening, February 28. Agricul- 

 tural nature-study received attention together with secondary 

 and college phases of the subject. 



Nature- Study Texts are always anticipated with much in- 

 terest. It is understood that several new books of this character 

 will appear during the present year. 



Professor M. A. Bigelow, of Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, former editor of the Nature-Study Review, sailed 

 for Europe early in March. He will devote several months to 

 study, returning to New York in the fall. 



Dean L. H. Bailey, of the College of Agriculture, Cornell 

 University, will again assume the a'ctive duties of his position 

 next fall, after a year of absence devoted to travel. 



Scientific Temperance Instruction in Illinois is to be 

 studied by a committee consisting of educators, ministers, and 

 meml>ers of the W. C. T. U., the entire committee being selected 

 by the president of the Illinois State Teachers' Association. 



A National Bureau of Public Health with a Commis- 

 sioner of Health at its head, is an aim set for immediate accom- 

 plishment by the Committee of One Hundred on National 

 Health. A fund of forty thousand dollars is estimated as neces- 

 sary for carrying on the campaign during this session of Con- 

 gress. 



A Conference of the Teaching of Agriculture in the 

 Common Schools of Illinois is announced to be held at the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, University of Illinois, March 24, 25 and 26- 

 Leaders in agricultural nature-study throughout the state will be 



present and much is expected from this gathering. 



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BOOK NOTES 



The House fly at the liar: (iuilty or Not Guilty — is the compell- 

 ing title of a 48-i)age indictment drawn by the Merchants' Association of 

 New York (April, 1909) through its Committee on Pollution of the 

 Waters of New York. It was Edward Hatch, Jr., chairman of this 

 committee, who financed the difficult undertaking of preparing the 



