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ceding classes to go as leaders of sections when he himself cannot 

 go. In some such way as this the work may be done, and many a 

 pupil will have the opportunity of learning much about the appear- 

 ance and habits of wild plants with regard to which he previously 

 knew little or nothing. But I cannot help feeling that the knowl- 

 edge so gained in the high school is acquired through an extrava- 

 gant waste of precious time which might have been much better 

 employed if the elementary school had given the proper nature- 

 study. 



The results of this field work in the high school should be gath- 

 ered up by each pupil into a collection of dried specimens for his 

 own herbarium, properly mounted upon standard paper and properly 

 named and labeled. He has then something to show for his work, 

 and the time and labor he has pujf upon his collection of specimens 

 will help to fix their characteristics and names in his memory. 



