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Seton, W. J. Long, Roberts, and others because of criticisms 

 from men who speak from the standpoint of the hunter of 

 animals, not from the standpoint of the sympathizer with animal 

 life, let them rest assured that neither fact nor fiction is the 

 aim in nature-study, but sympathy for all that is good in life. 



CORRELATION BETWEEN NATURE-STUDY AND 

 HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY 



By GEORGE W. HUNTER 

 DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City 



[Abstract of paper presented at the Baltimore meeting of the American 

 Nature-Study Society.] 



Editor's Note. — The report which follows may well serve as a basis for 

 the first work of the committee on relation of nature-study and high- 

 school biology. The fact that such a small percentage of high schools 

 attempt correlation may be surprising to many readers; but it must not 

 be taken as a criticism on nature-study more than on high-school biology. 

 Both are still in early embryonic stages. Also it must be remembered in 

 all such discussions that the early biological work of high school is com- 

 monly nothing more or less than nature-stud}^, hence correlation is ap- 

 parently absent. The editor doubts whether we can safely draw con- 

 clusions from the past and believes the record which follows has signifi- 

 cance chiefly with reference to problems for future solution. 



During the Spring of 1908, the writer, wishing to obtain some 

 first-hand information relative to the condition of the teaching of 

 biologic science in the secondary schools of this country, sent out 

 to the leading high schools in the cities and larger towns in the 

 United States a questionnaire on the method, purpose and con- 

 tent of biologic science in the high school. This questionnaire 

 went for the most part to cities of 10,000 inhabitants and over. 

 The answers received may be said to fairly well represent the 

 actual conditions in city and urban high schools the country over. 

 The county or township highschools sent answers in the propor- 

 tion of 5 to about 300 answers received, so may be considered a 

 negligable factor in the following report: 



The basis for this paper was obtained from the answers given 

 to the following question. "Assuming that you have nature- 

 study in the grades, to what extent do you correlate the grade 

 work in nature-study and human physiology with the biology of 

 the high school?" 



