40 NATURE STUDY REVIEW [10:1— Jan., 1914 



Ibis, and the other on the Olive Backed Thrush at his Summer 

 Home. 



The New York City Section of the American Nature-Study 

 Society met at Teachers College, Columbia University, Satur- 

 day, November 14. The following officers were elected: Presi- 

 dent, Ellen Eddy Shaw, Instructor Brooklyn Botanical Garden, 

 editor Garden Magazine; vice-president, Grace Greenleaf Ly- 

 man, New York Training School for Teachers; secretary-treasurer, 

 Charlotte E. Leb, School for the Deaf; executive committee, 

 Dr. Chester Matheson, Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, 

 Grace Stewart, Clifton School, New York City. 



Dr. Ira S. Wile, member of the Board of Education, addressed 

 the section upon "The New Course of Study in Nature-Study 

 and Hygiene. ' ' He spoke in part as follows : Nature-study should 

 be chiefly human nature-study. It should be related to life and 

 closely related to hygiene. The study of the cockroach is of more 

 importance to the city child than the study of the cecropia. Birds 

 which protect trees should be studied; poisonous plants are of 

 more importance than the crocus. 



Nature-study whose chief function is passive observation is 

 entitled to little time. Observational differences between two 

 forms such as color this and color that have little value. These 

 are . discriminations for the adult mind. The child only asks 

 what can I do with this ? 



The essentials of growth, respiration, nourishment as found in 

 plants and animals form a harmonious course. Such a course 

 shotild contribute to health, himian welfare, success. 



Anna M. Clark. 



Nature Articles in December Magazines 



Garden Magazine — Curious History of the Cinnamon Vine, 

 S. T. Homans. 



Harpers — ^Australian By-paths, Norman Duncan. 



Illustrated London News — Dec. 6, Courtship of Birds. 



Dec. 13, The Leaping Salmon. 



Outing — The Truth about Fox Farmmg, Clarence Birdseye. 



Popular Science Monthly — The Forests and Forestry of Ger- 

 many, W. R. Larzenby. 



Scrihners — Life History of the African Buffalo, Giant Eland 

 and Common Eland, Theodore Roosevelt. 



