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Our favorite walks shall know his form no more. The earth'^he 

 loved to study has claimed its own. But each spring as wejgo 

 forth to witness the drama of the triimiph of plant life over the 

 forces of decay, his buoyant spirit will still be with us strengthen- 

 ing our faith in the possibilities of Man and Nature. 



Program for the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the 

 American Nature-Study Society 



President, William G. Vinal, Rhode Island College of Education, Prov- 

 idence, R. I. 

 Secretary, Mrs. Anna B. Comstock, 123 Roberts Place, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Preliminary Announcement: 



Program of Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 

 December 28-30, 1922. 



Applied Nature-Study 

 Thursday Session ^ December 28, 10:00 A.M., Massachusetts Institute Technology. 



1. Nature-Study of the Various Scouting Organizations. 



E. Laurence Palmer, Professor of Rural Education, Cornell University. 

 Editor Cornell Rural School Leaflet. 



2. Some projects in the Princeton, New Jersey Schools. A day at the Walker 

 Gorden Dairy. A day on a Farm. A School Fair. A Yard Garden. 

 Annie T. Washburn, Supervisor of Nature-Study, Princeton Public Schools, 



Princeton, N. J. 

 "Get Together in Nature Education," 

 Van Evrie Kilpatrick, Director of School Gardens, New York City. Mr. 



Kilpatrick is Chairman of a Committee making an inquiry into the state 



of Nature Education conducted by the Btureau of Education. To date, 



717 cities have replied. Material for a report of far reaching importance 



has been collected. 

 "Nature Work with Younger Children: In the Home and School." 

 Mrs. Helen H. Neal. Mrs. Neal and Professor Neal (Professor of Biology 



at Tufts College) have definite ideas as to Nature study in the home. 



Mrs. Neal has been director of Nature-lore in the Luther Gulick Camps. 



What she has to say will be of great interest to teachers. 



Dinner of the American Nature-Study Society, 



This dinner will be in honor of Anna Botsford Comstock, who is retiring as 

 Professor of Nature-Study at Cornell University. An invitation is 

 extended to all persons interested, whether members of the society or not. 

 Tickets may be purchased of the President or at the Thursday morning 

 meeting of the Association. Toastmaster, Clarence Weed, Principal 

 State Normal School, Lowell, Massachusetts. Following the dinner 

 there will be short talks. 



The dinner will be at Hotel Bellevue, Beacon Street near the State House. 

 $2.50 per plate. Reservations cannot be made later than 12:00 o'clock, 

 Thursday, December 28. 



Friday Session, December 2Q, 10:00 A.M., Massachusetts Institute, Technology. 

 Applied Nature-Study. New England Day. 



1. Nattu-e-Study; Then and Now. 



Arthur C. Boyden, Principal State Norman School, Bridgewater, Mass. 



