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of copies lasts. These teaching numbers, of permanent interest, 

 are listed elsewhere in this issue. 



The Nature-Study Review is indebted to the Shade Tree 

 Commission of Newark, N. J., for the use of the illustrations in 

 Miss Luther's article which are not credited to the author, and 

 also for that on page 47. 



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Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, in addition to conducting her de- 

 partment in the Garden Magazine, is now supervising nature- 

 study work in the Ethical Culture School in New York City. 



Dr. Snedden, the new Commissioner of Education in Mas- 

 sachusetts, has begun a series of conferences with the science and 

 nature-study teachers of the State Normal Schools with a view 

 to formulating a new course of study suitable to prepare for 

 the teaching of nature-study in the first six grades. Dr. A. E. 

 Lambert, of Framingham, is chairman and Roland W. Guss, of 

 North Adams, is secretary of the committee. 



Miss Emmeline Moore, formerly of the State Normal, 

 Trenton, N. J., sailed January 18 for South Africa to serve as 

 Director of Botany in Huguenot College, Wellington, Cape Col- 

 ony, while the regular professor, Dr. Bertha Stone, is on a year's 

 leave. 



Mr John Davey, founder of the "Bird and Tree Band", is 

 starting upon a five months' lecture tour in the interest of tree 

 and bird protection. Literature on "The Bird and Tree Band" 

 may be obtained from Miss Anna M. Nutting, Box 300, Kent, 

 Ohio. 



A delegate meeting for permanent organization of the Illi- 

 nois Federation For Country Life Progress will be held at 

 Bloomington, 111., Monday, February 13, 191 1. 



The American Breeders' Association held its seventh 

 annual meeting at Columbus, Ohio, February 1-3, as guests of 

 the National Corn Exposition. The program included papers 

 on the improvement of farm crops and animals, and nut and 

 forest trees ; the breeding of fur animals, fish, bees and wild 

 birds; eugenics; pedagogics of breeding, principles of heredity, 

 and other topics of like nature and importance. Among the 



