G'llls; the appearance of hibernating animals as the Woodchuck, 

 Chipmunk, Snake, and Bat ; the awakening of the Frogs ; the leafing 

 and flowering of the Trees, the opening of the wild Flowers ; the re- 

 appearance of Insects as Butterflies, Mosquitoes, Potato Bugs; the 

 coloring and falling of leaves in Autumn. 



(6) Events of interest : frost, snow, rain, hail, rainbows, new and 

 full moon, eclipses ; the beginning and end of sleighing ; plowing, sowing 

 and planting, haying, harvesting, p )tato-digging ; making maf)le sugar ; 

 going fishing or berry picking ; the birds building nests or feeding their 

 young ; crows pulling corn or eating grasshoppers ; the young of wild 

 or domestic animals ; the swarming of bee?; use or harm of birds and 

 insects; tracks of animals in winter. 



(c) Histories of growth, with descriptions and drawing-; showing 

 changes from day to day ; notes on the condition of sjme chosen 

 development, as, for example, 



(1) A plant from a seed. 



(2) A tree, from bud to leaf and fl iwer and fruit. 

 (8) A bird's or wasps' nest. 



(4) A field of grain or roots. 



Records of things like these would form a very interesting book. 

 The inspector would be glad to see it. Next year it would be doubly 

 valuable for comparison. A careful summary would be welcomed by any 

 good local paper. It would add much to an exhibit at the autumn fair^ 

 for it would shew thinking as well as collecting, and the very best one 

 in the Province would make an excellent bulletin for the schools in 1905. 



Living Collections. 



It is not n3cessary that specimens should be dead and dried, for 

 living things are always of greater interest. Neither is it necessary to 

 keep birds or anlmils or frogs or fishes in thi school-room, though even 

 this has bsen done with profit, and an aquarium for the development of 

 tadpoles, small fishes, insects, etc., is quite practicable in some places. 

 Potted plants are already common in the win lows of well kept school- 

 rooms. 



But trees an I shrubs are easily planted and form a permanent 

 living collection of constantly increasing value. They attract the birds 

 and other forms of life and shelter the wild flowers. In this way they 



