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THE NA Ti T RE- S Tl T D Y RE I 'IE W 



[2 : 8 — Nov.,igo6 



One of the teachers on leaving the room said, "Bugs! Bugs! Oh 

 Mr. L — , you really don't mean that we are expected to give lessons 

 on bugs." When assured that that was exactly what was intended, 

 she replied, "Oh dear, I wish you were not such a good friend of 



Dr. Hodge." 



Fit;. 1. — Life-history of the cabbage-butterfly. Mounted in case described 

 in text of accompanying article. 



This reaction is typical and natural enough, but during the follow- 

 ing week the principal noticed in visiting the teacher's room that each 

 pupil had a little box— cigar or pasteboard, some of them with glass 

 covers — in which cabbage-caterpillars were feeding on fresh cabbage 

 leaves. The work was begun and the teacher seemed to be pleased 

 with it. A week or two later, on visiting the room again, the same 

 teacher met him with, <: Mr. L. — why haven't we been doing this work 

 before? It is the finest nature-study I have ever tried. The chil- 

 dren are wild over it. They have worked out the whole story of the 



