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NATURE STUDY REVIEW 



9:6— Sept., 1913 



especially selected for their training and experience in field work, 

 has given me an exceptional opportunity for trying out plans for 

 organizing class work afield and for planning and testing the 

 records of it that shall be required at the students' hands. It is 

 arranged that I shall write of some of these matters for subse- 

 quent numbers of the Nature-Study Review. Let me con- 

 clude this introductory paper with a statement of some of the 

 preliminary jobs that were done before the work was under- 



An out-door examination was conducted as shown in this picture. The back-stops of a girls' 

 playground in a sheltered place beside Cascadilla Creek were used for the display of the 

 specimens that were to be identified and written about. The groups of students seen, are 

 working at separate topics, and are passing from one topic to another without confusion 

 following a numerical sequence. 



taken. Several out-door class rooms were prepared at convenient 

 places in the woods as meeting places for sections. Some plantings 

 of wild things, and more pruning, were necessary. A path was 

 needed here, a bridge across a brook there, a stile over a fence 

 yonder. The banks of the best stream were too soft and needed 

 ridging to make a place where students could approach the water 

 in comfort. These little things are important, for it is just as 

 necessary in the field as in the laboratory that every student shall 

 be supplied with adequate materials and shall have a fair chance 

 to use them when he gets them. 



