EDITORIALS 



With the re-opening of the schools renewed activity is to 

 be anticipated in the ranks of the American Nature-Study 

 Society, manifesting itself in part in the formation of 

 New new sections. Centers of interest were developed 



Sections last spring in Rockford, 111., Milwaukee, Wis., and 

 Louisville, Ky. St. Louis will doubtless organize 

 at once with a membership approximating one hundred. The 

 secretary will agree to furnish information and literature to any 

 who are interested in the organization of local nature-study 

 clubs. To any group of teachers interested in this field we shall 

 be glad to afiford the evident advantages of affiliation with the 

 A. N.-S. S. 



The response to the request voiced in the May issue of the 

 Review inviting correspondence from teachers interested in 

 experimentation in the field of nature- 

 Experimentation in study or science teaching, is most 

 Nature-Study Teaching gratifying. Replies have been received 



from able teachers in elementary 

 school, high school and normal school. Many problems in edu- 

 cation can best be solved by teachers who are disciplined in 

 scientific method and to whose scientific training there is added 

 a genuine interest in education. The article by Professor Bagley 

 in this issue is a scholarly discussion of methods and values of 

 experimentation in teaching. The caution is urged that such 

 studies should be undertaken only with the utmost regard for 

 scientific procedure in every step. Guidance should be sought 

 from experienced workers in this new field. 



The momentum which inheres in united effort towards spe- 

 cific ends is gradually being recognized by the schools. Arbor 

 Day, Bird Day, Corn Day, and the like, have 

 "Mosquito Day": come to stay. Why not ''Mosquito Day"? 



Why Not? Xot all of our work even with the children 



can be constructive. Now and then the evil 

 must be attacked, and when it comes to battk with insect pests 

 "child labor" may well be employed. If rightly pursued, the 

 work will be in its larger aspects constructive, making for intel- 

 ligent citizenship. Such work as is described by Professor C 

 F. Hodge in the Nature-Study Review for February, 1907, fur- 

 nishes one of the best types of nature-study. One of the 

 Worcester, Mass., schools attacked the mosquito problem in 



