cxl Home Nature-Study Course. 



This plan seems to have been particularly helpful to the teachers 

 of rural schools and to the training classes of the State. The 

 demand for the leaflets has been very large, and many letters con- 

 taining expressions of gratitude for assistance rendered in this 

 work have been received from teachers who have made systematic 

 use of the lessons. The training-class students regularly receiving 

 the leaflets during the year numbered 1,843, of whom 359 worked 

 out and returned to us a series of lessons given, although such re- 

 turns were not demanded by the leaflets; New York State teachers 

 on the mailing list numbered 2,143; the leaflets were also sent to 

 406 New York State libraries, and in compliance with requests 

 668 copies were forwarded to out-of-state libraries, experiment 

 stations, normal schools and individual teachers. In connection 

 with these lessons we have received 1,254 letters and 770 postal 

 cards, and on our own part have sent out about 3,000 cards and 970 

 letters. 



In addition to the work outlined above, lessons based on the 

 work required by the State Syllabus have been given weekly during 

 the fall semester at the Ithaca High School by the editor of the 

 Home Nature-Study Course. 



It is now planned to finish the work outlined in the State Syllabus 

 with the lessons to be included in the Home Nature-Study Course 

 for the year of 1909-10. When that is done, it is desirable that the 

 leaflets dealing with the subject matter of the Syllabus be published 

 in book form, as the demand for the numbers issued this year is 

 so great that the supply is being rapidly exhausted and numbers 

 previously published are now entirely out of print. This would 

 seem to be the only way in which the special need of the teachers 

 of our State can be met, since with our own appropriation it is not 

 possible to keep on hand a sufticient number of the leaflets to supply 

 the demand. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, 



Lecturer in Nature-Study. 



