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with as much the flavor of nature study as possible 
instead of the reverse. The teaching of nature-study out 
of doors is quite another matter and we think Dr. Bige- 
low has in the main put forth the right ideas in his 
recent Httk book on "How Nature-Study Should Be 
Taught." He advises the teacher to get the child's point 
of view, to approach nature with the same wonder and 
questioning. He would have no formal schedules and 
would teach in a somewhat haphazard fashion letting 
the objects to be studied for the most part suggest them- 
selves. And he is also a believer in the theory that no 
teacher can be successful in this work without being, 
herself, possessed of a love of nature. Taken all in all the 
book is one of the best expositions of the way to teach 
nature-study that we have seen, but we hasten to add 
that in our opinion the book will not do as a manual for 
teaching about nature in the schools. The book is 
published by Hinds, Noble and Eldredge, New York. 
BOOKS AND WRITERS. 
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has recently 
distributed an excellent little pamphlet on "The Protec- 
tion of Native Plants" by Robert Tracy Jackson. 
The first number of The Apteryx issued by the Roger 
Williams Park Museum, of Providence, R. I., has ap- 
peared and makes a very creditable beginning. C. Abbott 
Davis is editor. 
Major George O. Squier has recently published an 
account of his experiments with trees in wireless teleg- 
raphy. He finds that vigorous growing trees may be 
used instead of kites or balloons for sending and receiving 
messages and thus making it possible to set up a new 
station in the field in less than fifteen minutes. 
"The Forest Wealth ot Oregon" by Edmund P. 
Sheldon, is apparently designed as an advertisement of 
the Lewis and Clark Exposition, but it is a pamphlet 
well worth owning by the botanist since it contains a list 
