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NEWS AND NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER 301 



Remember that A. B. Seymour offers to send specimens of 

 plants and some animals you may need at cost of package and 

 postage. Several readers have been supplied with wheat rust 

 at 25c. Address him care of Comstock Publishing Company, 

 who will forward requests to him. 



The Chautauqua (N. Y.) Quarterly for April was a Nature- 

 Study edition, announcing the natuarl history courses for the 

 summer in charge of S. C. Schmucker, Vaughan MacCaughey 

 and W. G. Burroughs. 



The Rockford, 111., Nature-Study Society has pubHshed in 

 pamphlet form a very neat list of the trees of their locality. 



The Platteville, Wis., Normal School has issued their course 

 of Study for the Training School, in which the science course 

 bears evidence of painstaking work on the part of Fred T. Ullrich, 

 who is in charge of the science work. 



Dean Sanderson, of the Agricultural College, University of 

 West Virginia, well-known for his book on entomology, has re- 

 signed his position, and is doing graduate work in the Department 

 of Sociology, University of Chicago. 



Miss Florence Billig takes the position as Supervisor of Nature- 

 Study in the grades in the Normal School at Emporia, Kansas. 

 Miss Mary Payne is to be Supervisor of Nature-Study at Wirietka, 

 111., and Miss Clara Dietz takes a similar position at Glencoc, 111. 

 All these are University of Chicago students. 



Sargent's Handbook of the Best Private Schools (published by 

 the author at 50 Congress Street, Boston), contains besides its 

 list of schools and its directories, some 46 pages devoted to summer 

 camps. Among the 300 camps for boys or for girls Ustcd in the 

 compilation table, Nature-Study is among the "special features" 

 announced for one or more of these camps. 



Permit me to add my hearty endorsement of the clear exposi- 

 tion of a point in present-day pedagogy by Professor Hart, in his 

 article appearing in the April number of llic Rural Educator; 

 namely, "Nature-study — a natural, first-hand way of learning 

 some old things," that is, learning by observing the things ol 

 nature rather than by reading in books about them. Let me ])()inl 

 out also, how utterly at variance this is to the idea adx-anced by 



