78 THE TEACHING BOTANIST 



of information,- -laboratory work, reading, lectures. It 

 is primarily a study in proportion and in correlation. 

 After the students have done their best with their first 

 essay, it is well for the teacher to read them a selected 

 one or even one composed by himself ; and to illustrate 

 this point there is given in Part II, Section 3, one that I 

 have read to my own students after they have completed 

 the study of the seed as called for in the first three Sec- 

 tions of the Outlines. Practically, I have found it most 

 advantageous to have separate books, uniform with the 

 laboratory books, for the essays ; the latter are, of 

 course, corrected and returned to the writers. 



