„o,h;k1 Il'K'K i:i.\ II.WS L'.M 



lakes will 1)0 iiiadr in tin- idmtiliration of the sj)(.H-ii- an<I that 

 • absolutely iiolliini;- but llic location <•! nr^iiiiL; iM-Miij^cr pi^M-mis 

 will secure any of the awards. Many thousands of the colored 

 plates of pigeon and mourning dove — both Mr. Kecd's leaflet and 

 the Audubon Society plates — have been distributed and literally 

 millions of notices have appeared in the newspaper^. I he ]»lan 

 has been proved to work to perfection. The only hiu h ha^ been 

 in the case of men — or women — who have more money than sense 

 and rather enjoy losing $5 on an interesting bluf¥. 



Theodore Roosevelt has expressed his interest in the work 

 and his desire to join the confirming party, if certain that the 

 nesting pigeons have been discovered. 



]Mr. F. W. Hov^e went last month from the Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, to Albany, N. Y., as 

 State Supervisor of Agricultural Education. This is a new 

 position created by the legislature last winter. 



Mr. Frederick Loeser, of the Frederick Loeser Co. (De- 

 partment Store, Brooklyn), has made the offer to supply free 

 to every child of the Brooklyn schools who asks for one next 

 Arbor Day, a catalpa tree for street planting. 



]\Ir. J. F. NoRWALD, of Upsala, Sweden, High School, who 

 has a royal traveling scholarship, is at present visiting schools and 

 colleges in this country, studying high school science teaching 

 and nature-study in the grades. 



Prof. M. A. Bigelow, of Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has returned from his period of study abroad. 



NOTES ON BOOKS AND PERIODICALS 



'Seods of >Iichij?an AVeeds" is the topic of Bulletin 250, Michigan 

 State Agricultural Experiment Station, Division of Botany, (East Lan- 

 sing, Mich.). That the bulletin is prepared by W. J. Beal is warrant 

 of its excellence. It is an admirable production, describing and illus- 

 trating seeds of a very large number of more or less common weeds. 

 Printed on a good quality of paper, the press work is excellent All 

 teachers who see it will recognize its usefulness. 



"Kural School Ktticieiuy in Kalamazoo County, Michigan," is the 



topic of a forty-j)age pamphlet prepared by Prof. Ernest Burnhain. in 

 charge of the Rural School Department of the State Normal School. 

 Kalamazoo, Michigan. It is published by the State Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction. It represents a very careful and intensive study 



•of a local area and will be especially useful to students and supervisors 



<of rural schools. 



