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been demonstrated valuable and practicable 

 for elementary education. 



Its membership consists of teachers and 

 others who are interested in nature-study for 

 schools and whose applications for member- 

 ship have been approved by the council. The 

 annual membership fee is one dollar, payable 

 before February 1, or upon election to mem- 

 bership in case of new members. 



The council for 1908 consists of the follow- 

 ing officers : 



President — L. H. Bailey, Cornell University. 



Vice-presidents — C. F. Hodge, Clark University; 

 F. L. Stevens, North Carolina College of Agricul- 

 ture; V. L. Kellogg, Stanford University; W. 

 Loehhead, Macdonald College, Quebec; F. L. 

 Charles, DeKalb (111.) Normal School. 



Secretary-Treasurer — M. A. Bigelow, Teachers 

 College, Columbia University. 



Directors (for two years) — D. J. Crosby, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture; C. R. Mann, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago; S. Coulter, Purdue University; 

 H. W. Fairbanks, Berkeley, Cal.; M. F. Guyer, 

 University of Cincinnati; (for one year) — 0. W. 

 Caldwell, University of Chicago; G. H. Trafton, 

 Passaic, N. J.; F. L. Clements, University of 

 Minnesota; Ruth Marshall, University of Ne- 

 braska; C. R. Downing, Marquette (Mich.) Nor- 

 mal School. 



The constitution adopted provides for an 

 official monthly journal to be published under 

 the direction of the council; and the well- 

 established journal of nature-study, The Na- 

 ture-Study Review, will be transferred to the 

 society. The annual subscription price ($1.00) 

 of this journal is included in the membership 

 fee of the society ($1.00) provided that this 

 fee is paid in advance ; but subscribers to The 

 Review are not enrolled as members of the 

 society unless elected after filing application. 

 For the purpose of stimulating local interest, 

 sections 'of the society will be organized in 

 various states and cities. Annual meetings 

 will be held, usually in connection with the 

 national scientific or educational societies. A 

 directory of members will soon be published 

 and revised annually. 



The Chicago meeting was well attended by 

 scientific men and dozens of others who were 

 unable to be present expressed great interest 

 in the movement. It is very important that 



at least one hundred fellows of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 should be enrolled as members of the Ameri- 

 can Nature-Study Society. Their influence 

 is greatly needed in the Nature-Study Society, 

 directly, and indirectly, in establishing de- 

 sirable relations with the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. 



For full information concerning the society, 

 or in sending in applications for membership, 

 address M. A. Bigelow, Secretary, Teachers 

 College, New Tork City. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 M. Henri Poincaee, the eminent mathe- 

 matician, has been elected a member of the 

 French Academy, in the place of the late M. 

 Berthelot. 



The Bruce gold medal of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific has been awarded to 

 Professor Edward C. Pickering, director of 

 Harvard College Observatory, for distin- 

 guished services to astronomy. This is the 

 seventh award of the medal, the earlier medal- 

 ists being Professor Simon Neweomb, Pro- 

 fessor Arthur Auwers, Sir David Gill, Pro- 

 fessor G. V. Schiaparelli, Sir William Hug- 

 gins and the late Professor Hermann Carl 

 Vogel. 



The council of the Eoyal Society of Arts 

 has awarded the gold medal of the Shaw trust 

 for industrial hygiene to Professor W. Gallo- 

 way, in recognition of his researches into the 

 action of coal dust in colliery explosions. 



M. Bouquet de la Grye has been elected 

 president of the Bureau des Longitudes for 

 1908, M. Poincare vice-president and M. 

 Bigourdan secretary. 



Dr. C. Chree, F.E.S., has been elected 

 president of the Physical Society of London, 



The University of Edinburgh purposes to 

 confer its doctorate of laws on Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, director of the Solar Physics Ob- 

 servatory, South Kensington, and editor of 

 Nature. 



The jubilee of Calcutta University will be 

 celebrated on March 14, when the degree of" 

 doctor of science will be conferred as follows:: 



