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doubtful questions. Butterflies and other insects in Riker mounts 

 may be similarly dealt with. Another interesting test is the telling 

 or writing facts about the life histories of animals, birds and insects; 

 this will stimulate both reading and observation. After a class in 

 junior science has been working upon the devices of flowers for 

 securing cross-pollination, give them a new flower with the task of 

 unravelling for themselves its hidden mysteries, instead of asking 

 them to repeat facts already ascertained. 



In our opinion it is the Nature Study Teacher's duty to lead a 

 crusade upon the gory battle field of examinations and by coUvStruc- 

 tive example show that the field should be red with poppies rather 

 than with blood. 



Annual Meeting of the Nature Study Society 



Held at Chicago in connection with the A. A. A. S. 



Room 303, Emmons Blaine Hall, University of Chicago 



Tuesday, Dec. 28, 10 a. m., 1920 



PROGRAM 



Twenty-five Common Spiders (Lantern) Mrs. W. L. Moffatt, Chicago 

 Michigan Dunes (Lantern) Mrs. W. A. Rowley, Chicago 



Election of Officers 

 Annual Report of the Secretary-Editor 



Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2 p. m. 

 A Survey of Twenty Years Progress in Nature-Study 



1. In Training Teachers (20 Minutes) 



Mrs. Anna B. Comstock, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



2. In Courses of Study (20 Minutes) 



Miss Alice J. Patterson, State Normal University, Normal, 111. 

 Are there Minimum Essentials in the Course of Study? (10 Minutes) 

 Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, Director of Lincoln School of Teachers College, 



New York 



3. In Providing Materials for Study (20 Minutes) 



Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens 



4. In Measuring Results (20 Minutes) 



Dr. E. R. Downing, University of Chicago 



5. In Extension Work (20 Minutes) 



A. F. Satterthwait, U. S. Entomological Laboratory, Webster Groves, Mo. 



6. Reaching and Training Rural Teachers (20 Minutes) 



Dr. E. Laurence Palmer, Editor of Rural School Leaflets, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



An informal luncheon is being arranged at which we hope all 

 members will be present. The time and place of the luncheon will 

 be announced at the meeting. 



