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Nature-Study Society have written to the editor of the Review 

 giving their observations. All orchard crops north of southern 

 Illinois were a total loss. Forest and shade trees generally re- 

 covered, although many, through the entire season, gave ample 

 evidence of the damage done them. Bird life did not seem to be 

 noticably affected. 



The Fifteenth Series of Saturday Afternoon Walks 

 in the forests, fields, hills and valleys about Chicago was very 

 successfully conducted during the late spring and summer. The 

 points visited were Starved Rock, north branch Chicago River, 

 Forest Arden, Upper Thorn Creek and Palos Park. 



Prof Herbert Brownell, of the State Normal School 

 Peru, Neb., has accepted a call to th-e professorship of theory 

 and practice of teaching the physical sciences and superintend-- 

 ency of the training school of the Teachers' College of the 

 University of Nebraska. 



The Board of Education of The City and County of 

 San Francisco has appropriated $5,000 to be used for the instal- 

 lation of school gardens next year. 



A Conference of Agricultural Educators and Rural Soc- 

 ial Workers was held August 9th to 12th in connection with, 

 the Summer School of the Massachusetts Agriculturar College. 

 Four days were devoted with profit to the topics of Agricultural 

 Organization, Agricultural Co-operation, The Range of Agricul- 

 tural Education, The Re-organized Twentieth Century School, 

 Rural Social and Religious Progress ,The Church and the Y. M. 

 C. A. in Community Building, Civic Betterment, A Better Coun- 

 try Town, and Organization and Co-operation for Rural Prog- 

 ress. 



The New York City Section of the American Nature- 

 Study Society held a meeting May 28 at Children's Museum, 

 Brooklyn. Prof. F. L. Holtz reviewed the year's progress and 

 spoke of local conditions. Miss Anna Gallup spoke of the func- 

 tion of the museum in relation to the schools, illustrating her 

 remarks with lantern slides. After the lecture Miss Gallup con- 

 ducted the company about the museum. 



