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most important of these were the foUowing: A five-dajs' trip 

 through Avestern Massachusetts; a seven-weeks' trip to the Pacific 

 coast, including visits to the Lake Superior copper regions, the Yel- 

 lowstone Park, Butte, Montana, Great Shoshone Falls in Idaho, Co- 

 lumbia River, Mount Hood, Frazer Caiion in British Columhia, 

 the Great Glacier of the Selkirks, and the Hot Springs at Banif; 

 and two trips through Nova Scotia, one in 1894 and another in 

 1898. In each of the latter trips special attention has been 

 paid to the various kinds of mining coal, iron, and gold, to the 

 famous mineral localities like Cape Blomidon, and to the general 

 geology. 



Also, connected with this work, a special course of lessons has 

 been given bv Professor Barton each spring to a class from the 



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niGE H. Barton, 



Boston Normal School, and many occasional lectures and field les- 

 sons to the classes of the State Normal School at Framingham, and 

 at other schools, teachers' clubs, etc. During the Boston exhibition 

 of the cyclorama of the volcano of Kilauea, Hawaii, over three hun- 

 dred teachers and a large number of schools visited that exhibition 

 and listened to personal lectures by Professor Barton in direct con- 

 nection with the work of The Teachers' School of Science. 



Owing to the request of members of the field class, a private 

 class was organized in the winter for a course of twelve lessons in 

 mineralogy. This proving successful, and a demand for laboratory 

 work being shown, this work was incorporated as a distinct course 

 in the school. It was during the early part of this work that Pro- 

 fessor Barton introduced for the first, time in The Teachers' School 

 of Science the svstem of dailv and final examinations — a svstem 



