HODGE] EDITORIAL 335 



School is located at 13th and Spring Garden Streets and is best 

 reached by 13th St. cars. 



The Nature-Study group will meet at the usual meeting place 

 at 1 130 p. M., and go to the Normal together. Any who wish to 

 go to the Normal School direct will find us in the lecture room of 

 the Nature-Study Department at 2 :3o p. m., where we shall hear 

 a paper; "The Local Nature-Study Situation," Adeline F. 



SCHIVELY. 



After this the buildings and Nature-Study Equipment will be 

 inspected under the direction of Mrs. L. L. W. Wilson. 



Editor's Note 



This number is devoted to a presentation of several outlines of 

 Nature-Study. More of them will appear in coming numbers. 

 Nature-Study has apparently reached the stage at which it de- 

 mands organization. Without premonition the editor has been 

 bombarded with demands for organization and plans for organiza- 

 tion. Inquiry has elicited more of the same. Apparently every- 

 where the more or less indefinite and incoherent Nature-Study 

 efforts are crystallizing into definite form. So important is the 

 issue that one session of our coming meeting at Philadelphia is to 

 be devoted to a discussion of the principles involved. Can we 

 formulate them now in sufficiently definite shape to recommend 

 them to all who are planning nature-study work? Read the out- 

 lines that follow and come to Philadelphia prepared to give us the 

 benefit of your counsel. 



Editorial 



THE NATURE-STUDY COURSE 



C. F. Hodge 

 University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. 



Surely no one who has followed the growth of nature-study for 

 the past ten years can find ground for anything but encouragement. 

 Of course, as with the introduction of any new matter into an 

 always "overburdened curriculum," there has been of necessity 

 keen discussion and sharp difi'crcnces of view, but all this has made 

 for progress. The most encouraging feature in the whole situation, 

 as I sec it, is that teachers everywhere arc 1)eginning to rcaUzc 



