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Hodge — " Nature-Study and Life." Shaler — " Domesticated Ani- 

 mals." Blanchan — " Bird Neighbors." Chapman — " Bird-Life." 



J. F. White. 



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Hodge — " Nature-Study and Life." Wright—' 1 Flowers and Ferns 

 in Their Haunts." Gibson— " Sharp Eyes;" " Eye Spy." Dick- 

 erson — " Moths and Butterflies." Comstock — " Insect Life." 

 Blanchan — " Nature Garden." Creevey — " Flowers of Field, Wild 

 and Swamp." Bailey—" Botany." Allen— "Flashlights of Nature." 

 Miller—" The Brook Book." 



Editor li Primary Education." Kva D. KELLOGG. 



Hodge — " Nature-Study and Life." Saunders — " Insects Injuri- 

 ous to Fruits." Chapman — "Birds of Eastern North America." 

 Agriculture Bulletins on moulds, mushrooms, and parasitic fungi. 

 Green — "Elements of Forestry." Gray — "Manual of Botany." 

 Gibson — " Sharp Eyes." Shaler — " Domesticated Animals." 

 Brightwen — " Wild Nature Won by Kindness." There is no good 

 book on general zoology, fishes, frogs, molluscs,- and mammals. 

 Clark University. (). P. DELLINGER. 



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I enclose such a list as I would give our own graduates, or more 

 exactly, such a list as our graduates would be likely to make for 

 themselves. I can give no order of preference for each book 

 functions separately: 



Hodge — "Nature-Study and Life." Keeler — " Our Native 

 Trees." Blanchan — " Bird Neighbors." Comstock—" Insect Life." 

 Blanchan — " Nature's Garden." l'arsons — " How to know the 

 Ferns." Ely — " A Woman's Hardy Garden." Hemenway — " How 

 to make School Gardens." Clapp — " Thirty-six Observation Les- 

 sons on Common Minerals." 



Philadelphia Normal School. L. L. Wilson. 



