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the bounds of space and goes visiting those suns which he calls 

 stars and which twinkle at him so enticingly. It widens his 

 powers of conception to know that the light that reaches him from 

 the Pole Star may have started on its journey to his eye before his 

 father was born; or that the light from Rigel, the brilliant white 

 star that marks Orion's foot, was sent forth before Columbus 

 discovered America; or that the very nearest star neighbor is 

 two hundred and eighty thousand times as far from this world 

 as is our sun. 



It is indeed most salutary discipline to learn as early as may be, 

 that our world and our particular section of it,, may not be the 

 center of God's great universe. 



The Great Dipper 



Henry Ware 



With what a stately and majestic step 

 That glorious constellation of the North 

 Treads its eternal circle, going forth 

 Its princely way amongst the stars in slow 

 And silent brightness ! Mighty One, all hail ! 

 The other tribes forsake their midnight track 

 And rest their weary orbs beneath the wave ; 

 But thou dost never close thy burning eyes, 

 Nor stay thy steadfast step. But on, still on, 

 While systems change, and suns retire, and worlds 

 Slumber and wake, chy ceaseless march proceeds. 



No Annual Meeting of the American Nature-Study 

 Society This Year 



The war was still dragging down our hearts and our purses when 

 the time came to decide whether we should meet with the A.A.A.S. 

 in Baltimore this year. It seemed to be the patriotic duty of 

 all of us to stay at home and help conservation and not go to 

 Baltimore and help clog transportation. If the Nature-Study 

 Society wishes to elect other or more officers, the secretary will be 

 glad to receive nominations and place them before the members in 

 the January number of The Rev ie w. The officers to be elected are : 

 President, five Vice-Presidents, four Directors and Secretary-Editor. 



