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NOTE 



The publication of the Tropical Eeaders was a notable 

 effort to make our Elementary Education more practical, 

 by using, in the instruction of children dwelling in the 

 tropics, what is familiar to them in animal, vegetable, 

 and social life, and so arousing interest and stimulating 

 observation. The books serve their purpose admirably, 

 and it is some testimony to their success that a need 

 for amplification in some directions has been felt. This 

 Supplement will go far to supply this need. It will 

 help to build the bridge one of the most necessary 

 and difficult of bridges between schoolroom and text- 

 book teaching on the one hand, and on the other, the 

 outside things on which children need to be trained to 

 exercise observation for the development of their facul- 

 ties as well as for the increase of their knowledge. 

 There is nothing more common in Inspectors' Reports 

 than the complaint that the "Science Teaching" (which 

 is simple, and liable to be misunderstood by being so 

 grandly named) "needs better practical illustration". 

 This Supplement will greatly assist teachers to meet 

 this demand, by showing how many illustrative experi- 

 ments can be performed with the limited appliances 

 within the reach and management of Elementary 



