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types of nature-study instruction in the schools in the .actual im- 

 provements of neighborhood sanitation, in the reduction of juven- 

 ile crime, the comprehension of English literature, the apprecia- 

 tion of poetic sentiment, the increased facility of artistic ex- 

 pression. We must have not alone the opinions of enthusiasts 

 whose judgments will be more or less discounted, but quanti- 

 tative studies, data capable of mathematically exact expression, 

 that will appeal to the cool judgment of the educational admin- 

 istrator. Here is work for a generation of nature-study peda- 

 gogues. It is the next step forward. 



News and Notes 



School G.\rdens ix Califorxi.x. 

 Mr. Elliot R. Downing, 



Chicago, 111. 

 My Dear Mr. Downing: 



As Secretary of the American Xature-Study Society. I am 

 sending you a brief report of the Stockton meeting. Agricul- 

 tural education is gaining considerable momentum in this state. 

 We are now in touch with seventy-five definite organizations. 

 The basis of our nature-study and agricultural work in California 

 is the school garden. We now have about four thousand boys 

 and girls making up one large California Junior Gardening class. 

 Of course there are thousands of others who are gardening in 

 California but who are not in direct touch with the University. 

 Yours sincerely, 



C. A. Stebbins. 

 Berkelev. Cal. 



Convention at Stockton, Cal. 



The California Section of the American Nature-Study So- 

 ciety njet in joint session with the Bay section of the California 

 Teachers* Convention, Stockton. December 28 and 29. 



President Babcock called the meeting to order on Decem- 

 ber 28. The following program was given : 



Stereopticon Lecture on School and Home Gardens. — C. H. 

 McCollum, Supt. Cleveland Home Gardening Association. 



What the Farmers Want the Schools to Teach in \'ocational 

 Subjects. — H. W. Wrightson. representing the California Divi- 

 sion of the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of 

 America. 



