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In our garden the best results have been with corn, zinnia, 

 mignonette, marigolds, morning glory, four o'clocks and yards of 

 pumpkin vine, but no pumpkins. The radishes too have been very 

 successful. Lucy E. Gilbert. 



Some articles dealing with Nature Study subjects in recent 

 magazines, January 1912: 



Scribner's, "The Sheep of the Desert." Kermit Roosevelt. 



Century, "Across South America — Through the Rubber 

 Country." Charles Johnson Post. 



St. Nicholas, "A February Freshet." Dallas Lore Sharp. 

 "Nature and Science." Edward F. Bigelow. 



World's Work, "The Potash Search in America." Guy 

 Elliott Mitchell. Delia L Griffin. 



Problems in the Experimental Pedagogy of Elementary Agri- 

 culture. G. A. Bricker, Journal of Educational Psychology. 



Pedagogical Problems in Nature-Study. F. L. Holtz. Ibid 

 December, 1911. 



W. L. Oswald, whose article on "Seed Testing" appeared in 

 the January number, is connected with the Agricultural College 

 of the University of Minnesota, and not the University of ~Michi- 

 gan, as was stated under the title of his paper. 



Miss Ruth Marshall, Ph. D., Professor of Biology at Rock- 

 ford College, Rockford. 111., is announcing several nature lectures. 

 We are in receipt of a similar announcement from H. D. Hemen- 

 way, Northampton, Massachusetts. 



C. J. Abbott's "Home-Life of the Osprey" can be obtained 

 in this country at Brentano's, 229 5th Ave., New York City, 

 $2.00. This book was reviewed in the January number. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Stevens, together with several members 

 of the faculty of the new Porto Rico Normal School, sailed the 

 first Saturday in the new year for Porto Rico. The party in- 

 cluded R. I. Smith, of the Raleigh, North Carolina. Experiment 

 Station, who will have charge of the extension work ; j\Ir. Arthur 

 D. Cromwell, of Humboldt College, Iowa; Mr. B. T. Griswold, 

 of the College Agricultural Station, Texas; S. K. White. Ames, 

 Iowa; A. E. Cockefair, Cape Girardeau Normal School, 

 Missouri ; and Miss May Umberger, Calumet. Michigan. ]\Irs. 

 Stevens will have charge of the Domestic Science work, and ^Tr. 



