PREFACE. 



Taken together the following pages may aid the work of 

 the Directors of Education in a part of the ground work on 

 Nature Study being laid down by them. And this in 

 particular by Mr. Frank Tate, M.A., I.S.O., through whose 

 vigorous and whole-souled feeling the bud of Nature Study is 

 opening out so thoroughly well, not only in his own, but in 

 all the sister States. 



May it continue so to do ; for the broader our interests, the 

 simpler and stronger our lives. 



R. H. 



January, 1907. 



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