126 NATURE STUDY REVIEW [8 :3— Mar., 1912 



How Jhe College of Agriculture of the University of Cali- 

 fornia is Trying to Cooperate With the Schools. — W. G. Hummel, 

 representing the College of Agriculture, University of California. 



What the State Should Do for Agricultural Education. — 

 Frank V. Cornish, representing the Commonwealth Club of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Mr. F. V. Cornish and Mr. H. W. Wrightson gave the busi- 

 ness man's and the farmer's point of view. Both urged the teach- 

 ing of nature-study and agriculture. 



Mr. C. A. Stebbins, of Berkeley, was elected president, and 

 Miss A. Sellander, of Oakland, Secretary-Treasurer, for the 

 coming year. 



Nature Study in England. 



In England, the School Nature-Study Union, organized in 

 1903, is the society corresponding fo the American Nature-Study 

 Society, and its official journal. School Nature Study, fills the 

 place of the Nature-Study Review in relation to our own so- 

 ciety. It is published five times annually, at least 1800 copies 

 per issue, and is edited ably by Miss C. von Wyss of the London 

 Day Training College. The honorary secretary of the Union is 

 j\Ir. Henry E. Turner, Principal of the Open Air School near 

 Woolwich. 



The present outlook for nature-study in England is thus 

 stated in School Nature Study, February, 1911, by the editor: 



''Never has the Nature Study movement in England been 

 more vigorous than at the present time. The work at the higher 

 centres of education of preparing and training students in Nature 

 Study has produced a generation of teachers who have some 

 grasp, both of outlook and method, characteristic of the subject, 

 as well as a small store of knowledge acquired in the right way. 

 Teachers more experienced in other respects, but unacquainted 

 with nature lore in any form, have had their attention drawn to 

 the educational value of such work, and have availed themselves 

 of the innumerable courses of instruction that have been provided 

 for them, and of the teaching of many books recently published, 

 in qualifying themselves for the new task. 



"The most enthusiastic supporters of the cause are not blind 

 to the fact that there are still many shadowy corners where en- 

 lightenment and sound educational principle have not reached, and 

 where the words Nature Study, a name of good repute, is a 

 cloak covering proceedings that have little direct relation to either 

 nature or study as far as the children are concerned. May there 

 soon be light ! 



