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collection more of a synoptic value. Such a collection of types 

 from the more important classes of animals serves an impor- 

 tant end in giving the student a general idea of the animal 

 kingdom as a whole, which is difficult to gain in any other way. 

 The building up of a laboratory museum with the help of the 

 students may be made to serve as an incentive to care and neat- 

 ness on their part in making dissections or other preparations 

 which may bear the name of the student on the labels, when 

 permanently installed in the collection. 



It is not amiss to encourage students in the special study 

 of some limited group of animals, and this may frequently be 

 accomplished by the beginnings of a collection of the local 

 species of the group. The permanent interest and enthusiasm 

 on the part of the pupil in the study of the phenomena of liv- 

 ing things may be taken as the measure of success in teaching 

 the natural history sciences. This can be secured more readily 

 by studying life in its natural surroundings than by dissections. 



