NEWS AXD XOTES 241 



C. W. Finley conducted the Xature Study courses at 

 Chautauqua, X. Y., this summer. 



The joint meetings of the American Xature Study Society, 

 the American Garden Association and the Department of Elemen- 

 tary Agriculture of the X. E. A. were interesting occasions. Some 

 excellent papers were presented and the discussions were lively 

 and to the point. 



Geo. D. }»Iiller and W. L. Eikenberry of the University of 

 Chicago High School Conducted a party of fifteen boys on a five 

 weeks' Xature Study Outing in the Yellowstone this summer. 



The course in elementary agriculture in Miami University 

 were crowded to the limits this summer. The new state law 

 making the teaching of the subject compulsory in the rural schools 

 sent teachers to the sources of information. B. M. Davis had 

 over two hundred in one course. 



Teachers in the United States who wish to exchange speci- 

 mens with Porto Rican teachers or who wish to establish ex- 

 changes between their pupils and Porto Rican pupils, may secure 

 the addresses of Porto Ricans who will make exchanges by writ- 

 ing to Prof. E. A. Cockefair, College of Agriculture. Mavaguez, 

 P. R. 



There are many things here which should interest children 

 of the States and many in the States which are curiosities here, 

 e. g. wheat in the grain or in the head are unknown objects here, 

 while the cocoanut and cacao abound. — F. L. Stevens, Dean, 

 College of Agriculture. 



Mr. W. W. Atwood. Secretary of the Chicago Academy of 

 Science, has been doing field work with a party of -tudents in the 

 Rocky Mountains the past summer. 



C. F. Hodge, member of the Council of the American X'ature 

 Study Society, spent some time in Wisconsin this summer investi- 

 gating the reported appearance of the wild pigeon. He was not 

 rewarded by any visible evidence of the birds however. On his 

 return he spent a couple of days in the School of Education 

 lecturing twice to appreciative audiences on ''Methods in Xature 

 Study" and "The Extermination of the Typhoid Fly." 



