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The preceding list does not contain the ten best books on nature- 

 study for the simple reason that there are no ten books that are every- 

 where and always the ten best. They are all books that will prove 

 diiectly helpful and suggestive to both teachers and pupils, because 

 all give something definite. The writer is aware that the price of 

 some puts them beyond the reach of many, but that is all the more 

 reason why teachers should know of them and place them in libraries 

 of towns, high schools and normal schools. A knowledge of the 

 common forms of life is absolutely necessary in nature-study. 

 Nature-study means getting acquainted with life about our homes, and 

 for that reason the writer has given preference to books that identify 

 and give information about common things. 



St. Paul, Minn. D. Lange. 



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I believe that every teacher of nature-study should in his prepara- 

 tion for the work have college or high school courses in science, the 

 more extensive, the better. 



As ready helps for reference, I would suggest the following as we 

 have tested them with our own children at our summer home and find 

 them excellent: 



Blanchan— " Bird Neighbors." Coulter — " Plant Relations." 



Comstock — " Insect Life." Heilprin — "Animal life of our Sea 



Shore." 



Northwestern University Medical School. 



W. S. Hall. 



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Hodge—" Nature-Study and Life." Thomson—" The Study of 

 Animal Life." Jordan, Kellogg & Heath— " Animals. " Coulter— 

 "Plants." Chapman — "Bird Life/" Sedgwick — " Principles of 

 Sanitary Science and the Public Health." Sternburg — •• Infection 

 and Immunity." Lloyds Bigelow — " The Teaching of Biology." 

 Kerner & Oliver—" Natural History of Plants." Cambridge Natu- 

 ral History. Maeterlinck—" The Life of the Bee." Peckham— 

 " Wasps, Social and Solitary." 



Baylor University, J. P. Kksi.kr. 



Waco, Texas. 



