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The following list of books is based upon the belief that teachers, 

 in order to present nature-study in a manner at all profitable, must 

 have a clear conception of the intellectual significance of the subject 

 and at the same time a " method of attack." The books are such as 

 are suggestive along these lines, only the last titles touching upon 

 methods of presentation. The selection has been made of books 

 bearing upon plant and animal life, merely because of my greater 

 familiarity with work in those lines and not as suggesting the 

 exclusion of other subjects. Bailey — "The Nature-Study Idea." 

 Jordan & Kellogg — -'Animal Life." Coulter—" Plant Relations." 

 Chapman & Reed — " Color Key to North American Birds." Stone 

 & Cram — " American Animals." Atkinson — " Mushrooms." Corn- 

 stock — " How to Know the Butterflies." Comstock — " Insect Life." 

 Eckstorm — "The Woodpeckers." Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets 

 (selected and revised edition). 



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Hodge — " Nature-Study and Life." The most suggestive book to 

 the enthusiastic teacher. Chapman — " Color Key to North Amer- 

 ican Birds." For one who can pay $2.50 for a book on identifying 

 birds in all parts of the country, this is the best book. Holland — 

 " The Butterfly Book." Best book on butterflies. Jordan & Ever- 

 mann — " Game and Food Fishes of the United States." Easily the 

 best book on the subject. Britton & Brown - — " Illustrated Flora." 

 By far the best book to identify all kinds of plants east of the 

 io2d meridian. Each plant is illustrated. Should be in every town 

 and high school library. Thomson — "The Story of Animal Life." 

 This is the only book which treats of the whole animal kingdom in a 

 brief readable form. It also gives the best brief account of Evolu- 

 tion and Darwinism, but does not include the recently published 

 results of Mendel and I)e Vries. It is a book for teachers and nor- 

 mal school students and all of them should read it. Dana — " How 

 to Know the Wild Flowers." Contains many colored and black and 

 white illustrations. ( )ne of the best books for identifications ami 

 short descriptions of our most common wild flowers. Bailey — " The 

 \ ature Study Idea. ' ' The best book on the pedagogy of nature-study. 

 It tells why, how, about what and by whom nature-study should be 

 taught. 



