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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Home Nature-Study Course. 



A Home Nature-Study Course for teachers has been established 

 for the benefit of those who wish to carry on a line of study in 

 connection with their teaching, and through vacation, but who 

 cannot undertake the work of a summer school. 



The course consists of printed matter selected for the purpose 

 from the publications of the Bureau of Nature-Study, together 

 with a quiz. This quiz is a series of questions, but should be 

 regarded as a report of progress and not as an examination. 



Lesson i on the germination of seeds is already in the hands 

 of some five hundred teachers. Lesson 2 is on the subject of 

 life in an aquarium with special reference to the study of the 

 development of the toad and the frog. Both lessons will be sent 

 on application, and others will follow as issued. 



It is hoped that groups of teachers in one school or locality, 

 training classes, and others preparing to teach, will take up this 

 Home Nature-Study Course. 



Synopsis of the Extension Work. 



The State Extension Work in Agriculture prosecuted by the 

 College of Agriculture of Cornell University, proceeds along the 

 following lines : 



I. Cooperative experimentation^ the results of which are reported in 

 the regular bulletins of the Station. 



II. Nature-Study and Farmer's Reading Course. — The Nature-study 

 movement proceeds along several lines, of which the following are chief : 



(i.) Efforts to reach the children through the teacher, by means of: 



Teacher's leaflets. 



Instruction at teachers' institutes. 



Instruction at State summer schools. 



Instruction in a school of nature-study at Cornell University, 



Home nature-study course. 



Personal correspondence. 

 (2.) Eiforts to reach the children directly, by means of : 



Naturalist clubs. 



Children's leaflets. 



Making of gardens. 



Collecting of insects. 



Holding of flower-shows. 



Personal correspondence. 

 Correspondence may be addressed to Bureau of Nature-Study, Ithaca, N. Y, 



L. H, BAII.EY, Chief, 



John W, Spencer, Deputy Chief. 



