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the black green of the hemlocks, or the blue green of the white 

 pines. The red cedars stand like living exclamation points in the 

 tipland pastures; and the sumac long since stripped of its brilliant 

 foliage now proudly holds aloft its wine colored panicles on its pale 

 grav stems to show that it still has red blood in its veins. The 

 witch hazel throws a network of branches beset with starry flowers 

 athwart the dark backgrotmd of the deep woods. The pale gray 

 bark of the beech matches the clouds above; the poplars stand 

 stiff and at attention clothed in khaki while the birches show pride 

 in their tatters as does the sycamore in its patches. The mosses 

 under the feet are green and soft and the leaves blown into windrows 

 greet our feet with happy rustlings. Who dares to say that the 

 sere and fallen leaf is sad! It is the merriest of all things. Its 

 Avork is now done and it plays with the winds and makes new and 

 intimate acquaintances with other leaves in the lee of knolls and 

 fences where they all whisper cozily of the snow blanket that is soon 

 to cover them. The noisy squirrel, the shy grouse, the sociable 

 nuthatches, the cheery chickadees and the bluffing crows all wel- 

 come early winter. It is an exquisite season that etches bare 

 branches against skies of varied gray or the crimson glow of sunrise 

 and sunset and it grants full measure of beauty to the eyes of the 

 true seer. 



Program of the Meeting of the Nature-Study Society 



of America 



To be held in St. Louis, December 30th, 1919, in the Soldan High 

 School. 11 A. M. to 5 p. M. 



Address of the retiring President, Dr. S. H. Schmucker. 



The Relation of Nature-Study to the Work of Boys' and Girls' Clubs. Theo- 



dosia Hadley, Instructor in Nature-Study in Western State Normal, 



Kalamazoo, Mich. 



The Results of Additional Science Tests in the Grades. Dr. Eliot R. Downing, 



University of Chicago. 



How the Cornell Rural School Leaflet Hopes to Teach Conservation through 

 Nature-Study. E. Laurence Palmer, Professor in Rural Education, 

 Cornell University. 



Nature Literature in Relation to Natural Science. IVofessor Lewis M. Dougan 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



The Increasing Use of Nature-Study in Teaching Geography. Anna Botsford 

 Comstock, Assistant Professor in Natiu-e-Study, Cornell University. 



The Relation of Elementar\' Science in the 7th and 8th Grades to Natiu-e-Study 

 Professor B. G. Shackelford of the St. Louis Public Schools. 



Informal Talks by Liberty Hyde Bailey and others. 



Business meeting which will include the report of the Editor of The Nature- 

 Study Review and the election of Officers. 



