REBACE: 
NATURE Study at the present day is happily becoming exten- 
sively recognised as a valuable subject in the education of the 
young, and very properly so; for, apart from the interest that 
is sure to attract the youthful mind as the wonders of Nature’s 
ways are taught and explained, a still more important gain will 
probably result as knowledge grows, and that is—the habit of 
observation. This habit, though acquired in the first place in 
regard to one object, may be expected eventually to extend to 
all creatures and things with which the individual comes in con- 
tact; and, furthermore, from accurate observation, inferences 
may be made and deductions drawn that may well lead to hght 
and truth—surely the highest aim of education! 
Should the following record of my notes stimulate or help 
one person in the habit of observation, my effort will not have 
been useless. 
PD POWER 
BRIXTON, April 1910. 
