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Editorial 



Notice of the Annual Meeting and Election of Officers 



The American Nature-Study Society will hold its annual meet- 

 ing in New York, December 27th. The meetings will be held at 

 Columbia University, inquire at Earl Hall for place of meeting. 

 Hotel headquarters will be Astor Hotel. 



The following officers are to be elected; for these offices the 

 nominations are as follows : 



For President — L. H. Bailey. 



Vice-Presidents— M. A. Bigelow, New York; B. M. Davis, Ohio ; 



E. R. Downing, Illinois; C. F. Hodge, 



Oregon; C. B. McCready, Canada; A. L. 



Mathews, Utah; Alice J. Patterson, Illinois. 



{Five are to be elected.) 



Directors — Anna B. Comstock, New York; John A. Dearness, 

 Canada; W. A. Slingerland, New York; L. H. 

 De Wolfe, Nova Scotia; J. B. Needham, New 

 York. 



(Five to be elected.) 



Subscribers to the Nature-Study Review are members of the 

 American Society and may send votes, if they are not to be at 

 the New York meeting, to the Secretary-Editor, to reach him by 

 the 24th of December. 



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