The Nature-Study Exhibition 



JUDGES' REPORT 



GENERAL 



A careful inspection of the exhibition has given us 

 two general impressions: (a] that a large amount of 

 sound work in " Nature-study " is now being done in 

 British schools, but (b) that a good deal of energy is 

 being expended along lines which are not likely to 

 yield the best return. We have therefore endeavoured 

 to be discriminating in our awards, and have sought 

 in our report to indicate briefly what appear to us to 

 be the more profitable and the less profitable kinds of 

 work. 



It may be remarked at the outset that this is the 

 first large exhibition of its kind in Britain, and that 

 it includes specimens of a great variety of work, no 

 small part of which has been accomplished by isolated 

 teachers, who have had little opportunity of com- 

 paring their own methods with those of others. In 

 affording suggestions to such teachers the exhibition 

 method seems to us very valuable, and we hope that 

 it may be followed up in future years. 



A lavish distribution of awards has seemed to us 

 undesirable, but we take this opportunity of pointing 



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