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tion (Article I\') provides: "The Council shall make nomina- 

 tions for all offices and publish them in the official journal before 

 November fifteenth of each year. Members and fellows shall 

 have the right to suggest nominations by mail, and any name 

 thus receiving at least twenty-five votes before October fifteenth 

 shall be published with the nominations by the Council." Any 

 members having nominations to make will please send the names 

 to the editor who is also the secretarv-treasurer. 



Nature- Study Articles in Recent Mag.\zines. 



'Sunstorms and the Earth." E. Walter Maunder. Harper's. 

 September. 



"The Motion of the Fixed Stars.'' Benjamin Boss. Harper'<i 

 August. 



"The Last Frontier" (helpful to geography teachers). E. 

 Alexander Powell. Scribner's, September. 



"My Friend the Ruby-Throat," Katherine E. Dolbear; "Ento- 

 mological." Robert M. Gay. Atlantic, August. 



"The Doom of the Lion in Africa," Cyrus C. Adams, Reinezv 

 of Reriei\.'s, August. 



"Annuals for Winter Bloom Indoors," Garden Magazine. 

 August. 



"Notes about Ants and Their Resemblance to Man. " Win. 

 Morton Wheeler. Xat'l Geog. Mag.. August. 



"The Retreat of the Birds." Hamilton W. Laing. Outing. 

 July. 



"In the Noon of Science." John Burroughs ; "Who are the 

 Japanese" (for geography teachers). Arthur May Knapp. At- 

 Jantic, September. 



— Delia I. Griffin. 



C. W. Finley, graduate student in natural science in the 

 School of Education, the L'niversity of Chicago, has accepted 

 position as head of department of biolog}- at the State Normal 

 School at Macomb. 111. 



A Nature-Study Club was recently organized at Grand Rap- 

 ids. Mich., thanks to the efforts of Miss Ora May Carrel. De- 

 tails of the organization will be given in a later issue 



