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OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS 



Note-Books in High School Botany 



By Willard N. Clute 



I think I have partially solved the problem of botanical note- 

 books by a scheme of allowing certain pupils to answer the ques- 

 tions in the laboratory work by drawings, instead of written 

 work. In buds, for instance, the question may be asked, "Do 

 underground plants produce buds?" One pupil would hunt up 

 some underground plants and answer "yes" ; the others would 

 make a drawing of such buds. For bud protection one would 

 describe how buds are protected ; another would make drawings 

 to show this. All notes that cannot be answered by drawings 

 must be in the temporary note-book, but those who draw their 

 answers are excused from the written work of the permanent 

 note-book. One course takes about as long as the other, but 

 most pupils prefer the drawing ; it is certainly easier for the 

 teacher and I am inclined to think is fully as useful in teaching 

 form and structure. 



A lecture on water purification plants, one of a series in sani- 

 tary science at Columbia University, is announced for April 26. 



An injunction issued by Secretary Ballinger after a personal 

 inspection of the region has at least delayed the appropriation of 

 the Hetch-Hetchy valley by San Francisco as a municipal water 

 reservoir. 



Cacti and desert plants for schools, gardens, and conservatories 

 may be obtained from Mr. J. C. Blumer, Box 684, Tucson, 

 Arizona. 



A well-indexed and fully-illustrated government bulletin 

 (No. 166) has just been written by William L. Bray on The 

 Mistletoe Pest in the Southwest. The hosts, life history, and 

 methods of combating the mistletoe are the main topics included 

 in this clearly-written pamphlet of about forty pages. 



