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problems of food and clothing, of shelter and sanitation and 

 personal hygiene, all become a legitimate part of the great subject. 

 5. Finally, the ethical value of nature-study which results in 

 happiness to the individual is most important. One is never 

 happier than when riding a hobby and riding hard. Birds or 

 butterflies, trees or mosses, ferns or fungi — it doesn't matter, so 

 long as one has an absorbing interest in the world without. 

 Health and happiness are not to be despised in these days of 

 nerves and constant demands for new sensations. 



To the love of all created things nature-study should lead, and 

 if it be true that love is the greatest thing in the world then 

 nature-study is indeed justified. A man who ranks high in the 

 scientific world showed this spirit when he carried a tub of sea- 

 water back to the beach from which it came, a distance of some 



any life there but it would be a pity to run any risk of destroying 

 life needlessly." 



That the country-boy will see more of interest and beauty in 

 his surroundings, and that the city-boy will learn greater appre- 



the agricultural side of nature-study has been much developed 

 can we hope for that which will help to solve the greater problems 

 of rural districts. Nature-study has no need to demand more 

 than rightfully belongs to her. 



Mary Perle Anderson. 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 



Mr. C. F. Millspaugh, of the Field Museum of Natural History, 

 Chicago, spent about two weeks at the Garden before his departure 

 for the Bahamas. , 



Dr. N. L. Britton and Mrs. Britton left New York on Feb- 

 ruary 1 1 for the Bahamas, where they will spend several weeks 

 in botanical exploration. Mr. C. F. Millspaugh will join them 

 at Nassau. 



