56 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [7:2— Feb., 191 1 



California. The editors are State Superintendent Edward Hyatt and 

 Professor E. B. Babcock, of the University of California. 



Agriculture and Nature-Study for Rural Schools is the sub- 

 ject of Bulletin No. 5, Series X, issued by the State Normal School of 

 Greely, Colorado. The bulletin discusses inefficiency of rural schools, the 

 aims in teaching nature-study-agriculture, how to redirect the work of the 

 rural school, the training of the rural school teachers, and an outline of 

 .subjects for the course of study. The bulletin is prepared by H. W. 

 Hochbaum. 



Insects and Disease. By R. W. Doane. New York : Holt and Co. 1910. 

 This new volume in the American Nature Series is a popular account 

 of the way in which insects spread some common diseases of man and 

 domesticated animals. It gives special attention to the house-fly (alias 

 typhoid-fly, or filth-fly) as a carrier of the germs of intestinal diseases, 

 such as cholera and typhoid, and even of tuberculosis and other diseases. 

 Three chapters are devoted to the description, classification, general nat- 

 ural history, and relations of certain mosquitoes to malaria and yellow 

 fever. Other chapters deal with the relation of fleas to plague, of ticks 

 and mites to the destructive cattle diseases known as Texas fever, of 

 certain tropical insects to sleeping sickness, elephantiasis, and other dis- 

 eases for the transmission of whose germs insects have been charged 

 but have not yet been proven guilty. The book will prove a useful com- 

 pilation of facts which will tend to win popular support for the scien- 

 tific warfare against dangerous insects. Many of them have already 

 l)een found guilty of murder in a degree which warrants capital punish- 

 ment at the hands of an enlightened public; and this book will persuade 

 many intelligent citizens to help with the execution. M. A. B. 



Farm Friends and Farm Foes. By Clarence M. Weed. Boston: Heath. 

 1910. 

 This is a very attractive book intended to serve as a text and guide 

 ior study of certain plants and animals which have an important rela- 

 tion to agriculture. Part I deals with weeds ; Part II with insects ; Part 

 III with fungi ; Part IV with birds ; and Part V with mammals. Most of 

 these divisions well contrast the useful and harmful relations; but the 

 "friend" side of the mammals deserves more emphasis ; and teachers who 

 use the book would do well to gleam supplementary material from such 

 books as Shaler's "Domesticated Animals" and Wood's "Dominion of 

 Man". Every school library and public library in agricultural com- 

 munities should have "Farm Friends and Farm Foes". M. A. B. 



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