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Co., 1897, pp. 120. These exercises, numbering fifty-seven, deal with plant- 

 structure and growth, beginning with the seed and completing the cycle to the 

 seed again. The book is intended to be used in the elementary schools, and 

 requires no other equipment than that furnished by the average country school. 

 Illustrative material is taken from the Pacific Coast flora. 



"California Plants in their Homes:" Alice Merritt Davidson. Part I: A 

 Botanical Reader for Children; part II: A Supplement for Teachers. Los 

 Angeles, B. R. Baumgart, 1898, pp. 349. This book is arranged according to 

 the California seasons, and is intended for use in the public schools. It has been 

 used extensively in southern California. 



"Lessons in Nature-Study:'' Oliver P. Jenkins and Vernon Kellogg. San 

 Francisco, Whitaker and Ray Co., 1900, pp. 191. These lessons were put in 

 manuscript form for the use of the Oakland schools. In answer to a wider 

 demand they were revised, extended and illustrated and in this new form pub- 

 lished from time to time during 1898-9 in the Western Journal of Education. 

 Finally in 1900 the lessons were again revised and published in book form with 

 the above title. The lessons, thirty-seven in number, cover a wide range of sub- 

 jects including chemical ■<■ nd physical phenomena, animals, particularly insects 

 and plants of various kinds. 



"Nature-study Bulletins: Butterflies," C. W. Woodworth; The Living Plant, 

 W. J. V. Osterhout, Berkeley, Cal. The University of California Press, 1900, 

 pp. 64. These two bulletins were issued in one pamphlet. The first on butter- 

 flies gives methods of study and list, illustrated by text -figures and plates, of 

 three hundred and fifty-four species known to occur in California. The second 

 deals with the life-processes iof the plant worked out by means of easily per- 

 formed experiments. 



"Stories of Our Western Birds:" Elizabeth and Joseph Grinnell. SanFrancisco, 

 Whitaker and Ray Co., 1903, pp. 203. This popular little book contains 

 accounts of many of our common California birds based on the observations of 

 the authors. Besides these accounts it contains descriptions for identification of 

 forty- two species. 



"School Gardens for California Schools:" B. M. Davis. Bulletin No. 1 Chico, 

 California, State Normal School, 1905, pp. 79. This is a manual for teachers 

 and is intended to give all the necessary information for conducting school-gard- 

 dens. Local conditions were considered in the preparation of an annotated list of 

 the most common and important insects of California, with references to litera- 

 ture, and a plant calendar including list of vegetables and flowers suitable for 

 school-gardens with time of planting, direction, etc. It also contains a biblio- 

 graphy of school-gardens of over two-hundred titles, and an appendix of exercises 

 for study of soils and other factors in plant growth. 



"Humane Education:" W. F. Bliss, et al. Bulletin, San Diego, Cal. State 

 Normal School, 1906, pp. 30. This bulletin deals with nature-study but from the 



