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interest in some portion of nature-study, said interest being born of a 

 real experience in and contact with nature. So I always try to turn 

 them to books which will invite inquiry and thoughtful investigation, 

 rather than to those which deal in "lessons." 



I also seek to know the inch ^idual.or individuals, before I recommend 

 books. In other words, I want the medicine to fit the ailment. 



However, the following will show my general thought: Hodge — 

 "Nature-Study and Life." Scott— "Nature Study and the Child." 

 Comstock — "Insects." Orton — "Comparative Zoology. " Bailey — 

 "Lessons with Plants." Dana— "Our Wild Flowers." Chapman — 

 "Bird Life." Dodge — "Readerof Physical Geography" (or better, 

 "Elements of Geology" by Le Conte, if the teacher is equal to it). 

 Jackman's — "Nature-Study." 



This list can, of course, be extended almost indefinitely with books, 

 some of which will be equally as good as the above. 



Department of Education, D_ L. BARDWELL. 



City of New York. 



TRUE NATURE-STUDY: ITS FUNDAMENTALS, AND ITS 

 RELATION TO SOME OTHER SUBJECTS 



BY T. V. CRONE 



State Normal School, Greeley, Colo. 

 [Paper read before Science Section of Colorado State Teachers' Association, 

 Dec. 1905.] 



I. Introduction 



The aim or purpose of education has been so fully agreed upon by 

 educators that the statement of it has come to be a platitude; but in 

 the foreword of this discussion I ask you to recall that aim — " the 

 formation or development of right character." 



Now if the formation or development of right character is the 

 fundamental aim or end of education,^ and we are to try consciously 

 so to regulate the machinery of education that there shall be the best 

 possible results from the energy expended, it is of the utmost impor- 

 tance that we have and keep clearly in mind the forces that go to 

 determine character; and these are two — environment and heredity. 

 The character of an individual will at any time depend entirely upon 

 these two factors, and the manner in which they react and have 

 reacted in the presence of each other. 



It is, of course, too late after the child has been born into the 



