New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-04

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HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Hereafter till further notice. principals will not
be required report students members OF their
schools who fail at Regents examinations This
change Is made at the request of many principals.
In criticisms Of question papers at future examI-
nations principals should state explicitly the ques-
tons which objectionable. They should also
report the blank for criticisms Of question pa
pers the time devoted in each subject by weeks and
periods 10 regular classroom instruction.
HOME EDUCATION
During October fifty-nine study clubs have re-
ceived travelling Libraries for study of their special
subjects eighteen schools have had libraries for
classroom work and for reference and twenty
three collections for general reading have been sent
TO small libraries and communities without IL
brary. In addition, libraries have been placed in
an orphan asylum, Industrial school, 4 hospital
and in four philanthropc club organizations
connected with churches. Inquiries and applica-
tons for books on agriculture indicate growing
interest IN that subject on the part a. farmers
Inc change IN the plan OF lending wall pictures
as outlined last year, has been put into effect BY
the present plan the pictures are lent for the aca
deTnic year, instead of for half the year as for
merry, and the fee IS now 81 for each picture
transportation both ways is paid by the State In
october ninety five wall pictures sent TO fsur-
teen schools and two libraries, 1166 lantern slides
10 seven schools and five clubs and $40 photo
graphs TO four schools and clubs.
In October the following clubs were registered:
Addison Literary Club Albany Aquewa Club.
Canastota Pari Passu, Carthage Die Zwolf Brock
port History Club. Geneva Catherine Foster Hop
study Ciuo OsWeSo Bookwomen. Palmyra Kings
Randolph Enquirers club Friendshin NnscaI IL liz
erary CIun, Rochester Woman's Missionary Society.
Brownville Study Club. Goshen Reading Circle
Troy clio Assembly and Cape Vincent Study Club.
-Four hundred and nine clubs are now registered
on the university lists.
STATE MUSEUM
The conclusion Of the field season of 1900 brings
number Of important pieces Of work to completion
for discussion in the museum reports
In zoology important work has been done by
Professor James l. Kellogg of Williams College
in his study OF the biological and commercial rea-
tons Of the hard ANA soft and scaIIop in the
W4lers Of New-Nork State.
y" catalogue OF the bitds OF New-fork state I'M
dertaken by Or Marcus ;. Farr has made inpor-
tant pTosress. and the first edition win probably
oe ready Tor publication within six months Vari-
Gus important minor studies have been made by Oh
IN geology the survey of the crystalline rocks Of
the Adirondack REGION and Of the highlands
new edition of the large reoio.jc5i M ~ he
State, which will go 10 press before the close OF
this year Important work has been done in
quaternary EeolOsy by ]. B. Woodwork, Of Har.
th@ University # Eochester
tITe Of this wear for repairs ana improvements in
Geological Hall IS now being expended in the In
ISOLATION Of steam heating plant and various re-
pairs and new features which viii greatly aid the
Of the departments of the Botauist and State
Entomoogisr in The same building with the depart
or geology.
The a-eefor Of the n qssug win have c4arEe Of
the Pan-Amercan Exposition. IN which several
departments Of the museum win be represented
WORK IN ENTOMOLOGY
Plans being formulated for an entornoIogicaI
exhibit, IN connection with other divisions of the
New-Norl State Museum, at the Pan-American
Exposition. small synoptic collection one repre-
senting many of the more important economic in
sects causing trouble in the house. field or forest,
together with examples and Illustrations Of their
operations. and 4 collection showing some thing OF
the history and work Of the office viii Of
the principal features Of the exhibit.
The state EntomOlogist recently received some
genuine Californian smyrna" figs which we're
Grown and packed by George c. RoedinG. OF Fresno.
Cal. The samples were equal to best iruDorted
figs This marks anothar triumph for applied or
economic entomology. These figs he pro-
duced in perfect condition without aid Of
minute insect. commonly known a fi- wasp. II
was through the agency Of the United States De-
partment ~ Agriculture that this insect was i'm
ported, and after repeated trials established in Cali
fornja. II Is now possible that the production Of
the Smyrna hg may become OF the prominent
fruit industries Of that favored State.