THE 



NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



DEVOTED TO ALL PHASES OF NATURE-STUDY IN SCHOOLS 



Vol. 3 MARCH, 1907 No. 3 



WILBUR SAMUEL JACKMAN 



January 12, 1855 — January 28, 1907 



Probably most readers of The Nature- Study Review have 

 read in the newspapers that Professor Jackman, whose name is 

 one of the most familiar to all students of the development of 

 nature-study in America, died in Chicago on January 28th, at 

 the age of fifty-two years. It seems fitting that this journal 

 devoted to the advancement of nature-study, to which Professor 

 Jackman contributed so much in its pioneer days, should place in 

 permanent record the leading facts of his life. 



Wilbur Samuel Jackman was born at Mechanicstown, Ohio, 

 January 12, 1855. He graduated at the State Normal School at 

 California, Pa., in 1877. After teaching three years, he studied 

 at Allegheny College from 1880 to 1882, and then entered Har- 

 vard College and graduated in the class of 1884. After a brief 

 career as a remarkably successful science teacher, he was called 

 to the Cook County Normal School by the late Colonel Francis 

 W, Parker. When Colonel Parker accepted the presidency of 

 the Chicago Institute — now the College of Education of the 

 University of Chicago — his first appointment of associates was 

 Professor Jackman. . He was dean of the College of Education 

 for three years (1901-1904), and for two years past he has been 

 principal of the University Elementary School. Since 1904 he 

 has edited The Elementary School Teacher. 



Professor Jackman's work in connection with the nature- 

 study movement has been well written in Bailey's "Nature- 

 Study Idea" and deserves a place in this sketch: 



"The introduction of elementary science as an organic part 

 of school work, ranking with arithmetic and grammar, was made 



