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study rather than that often taught in the public schools. For this 

 reason my list may contain many books that others do not. 



The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. Bailey — "Cyclopedia 

 of American Horticulture." Hodge — " Nature-Study and Life. " 

 James — " Practical Agriculture." Goff — " Principles of Plant Cul- 

 ture." Voorhees — "First Principles of Agriculture." Miller — 

 "Children's Gardens." Duncan — -'Mary's Garden and How it 

 Grew." Bailey—" The Nature-Study Idea." King—" Physics of 

 Agriculture." Baldwin — "Industrial Social Education." Keeler — 

 "Our Native Trees." 



I find some of the bulletins published by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, and the different State agricultural 

 experiment stations, the nature leaflets published at Hampton, Va., 

 Cornell University, State Board of Education in Vermont, and a few 

 of the leaflets published by some of the western agricultural experi- 

 ment stations as valuaDle for reference as the books. 



Hartford School of Horticulture. H.D. Hemenway. 



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It is difficult to name a list of books which shall be better than 

 any other list containing the same number. Among those that I 

 have found helpful are as follows: 



Abbott— " Days Outdoors " and his other works. Works of E. 

 G. Ingersoll. Works of Thompson Seton. Coulter — " Plant Rela- 

 tions." Jordan c\: Kellogg — ' Animal Life." 



The University Elementary School. W.S. [aCKMAN. 



Chicago. 



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Such books as Wright's Nature-Study Readers (which furnish both 

 spirit and information) are in my opinion most useful to the ordinary 

 teacher and pupil. Howe's "Elementary Science Teaching" is a 

 most excellent book. Jackman's books are good if the teacher has 

 the patience to rind the useful points needed. 



What is needed in my opinion is to avoid the extreme poetical and 



sentimental books and the routine book — not only routine in talking 



but routine in observation, like a book for laboratory observations on 



fruits and vegetables recently published. 



Sam Houston Institute, W. B. Coleman. 



Huntsville, Texas. 



