HISTORY OF NATURE-STUDY 13 



independently by Frank Owen Payne. He com- 

 pounded it, using the hyphen at the suggestion 

 of A. N. Kellogg. Mr. Payne began his work 

 in nature-study in 1884, when a teacher in Corry, 

 Pennsylvania. In i 886-1 889 he lectured on the 

 subject in Minnesota, and later in New Jersey. 

 Beginning with 1889, he became a regular con- 

 tributor to the New York School Journal, there 

 using the term nature-study. 



Many schools in several States were introduc- 

 ing elementary science in the latter part of the 

 eighties, and it seems that several of them began 

 to use the term nature-study without knowing 

 where or how the term was suggested. The 

 nature-study idea is now widespread and thor- 

 oughly established. It marks an epochal change 

 of front in the aims of education, developing the 

 purpose and the means of putting the child into 

 relation with the actual world in which he lives. 



