_NATURALISTIC PERIODICAL LITERATURE OF AMERICA 53 
into nature. Mr. Clute has contributed many articles of his own to 
this magazine, and as a whole I think that it has more literary merit 
than almost any other periodical yet discussed. It is the Burroughs 
type of literature, and it lacks the virility of the open air which we 
enjoy seeing caught within a magazine’s pages, yet it is conver- 
sational, easy, delightful. It is a tramp without sentimentality, and 
it has some of the folk-lore ease and grace about it in its dealings 
with plants. The meaning of their names, the legends about them 
etc., all belong within the scope of this publication. Let us examine 
the “contents of the first volume. It has no poetry. The articles 
insit include the following titles: ‘‘Some Abnormal flowers,”’ 
‘The Grape Fruit,’’ ‘Lilies,’ ‘‘Mullein and Poke,” ‘‘The Indian 
Pipe,” ‘‘Waning Year in the South,’’ ‘“ Devastation of Nature,” 
“The Opening of a Flower,’ ‘‘Double Flowers,’’ ‘‘How the Nas- 
turtium is Pollinated,’’ comes in volume five as a distinct surprise 
because of its purely scientific character. If we examine these 
titles we find much of interest in evolutionary values. For instance, 
the first, discussing abnormal flowers, belongs with the curio stage, 
the first or initial evidence of interest in things, natural. The 
next, on the grape fruit represents the interest in foreign fruit and 
flowers. It corresponds with the interest which led ‘‘Birds and 
Nature’’ to include so many foreign birds in their first numbers. 
The Indian pipe article, and-‘‘Waning Year in the South,” are 
distinctly Burroughsesque. They are quite the same as a Charles 
Abbott excursion. > 
Now let us turn to a recent number. It is published at present 
in Joliet, Ill., and the February, 1920 number lists the contents as 
follows: . 
I. 10 articles of about a page each, on various aspects and interests iu 
plants; 1 article of eight pages on ‘‘Plant Names and Their Meanings,” by 
Mr. Clute. Continued from former nos. 
2. 1 comment of brief nature; 1 verse from Bryant (Heading the pub- 
lication as 1st article); Odd and rare plant occurances. Color variation in 
flowers; Conservation note in ‘‘ Perpetuating our Native Flora.” 
3. Note and Comment (six articles). 
4. Editorial (Six short ones). 
5. Books and Writers. (3) Entire contents of number, 36 pages. 
By 1905 Nature Study had won its way into many schools in 
some form or other. And in that year M. A. Bigelow began the 
publication in Geneva N.Y. and N. Y. City, of the ‘‘ Nature Study 
Review.” This was a magazine devoted ‘‘to Nature Study in 
