54 The Nature-Study Exhibition 



increasing. " Outdoor school " has also been carried on 

 at Stanbury, near Haworth, for a period of six years or 

 more. 



The exhibits sent by the Severn Road Boys' School illus- 

 trated work done upon rambles and of the following kinds: 



" I. Collecting plants on wayside, field, meadow, and copse. 



2. Examining geological formations and collecting specimens, as 



found in quarries, railway-cuttings, and sea-shore. 



3. Objects of interest in the neighbourhood, such as bridges, viaducts, 



canals, and rivers (formation of beds, &c. ). 



4. Arranging plants into poisonous and non-poisonous classes. 



5. Collecting leaves, bark, and fruit of the common trees in the 



neighbourhood. 



6. Arranging, pressing, and mounting the same. 



7. In the fields amongst the various grain-crops wheat, barley, 



rye, and oats. 



8. Preparing geological and botanical specimens for the microscope. 



9. Recitations bearing on Nature-study, illustrated by rambles and 



photographs. 



The leading features in these Rambles are as follows : 



(a) Scholars are taught to distinguish between flowers and plants 



of the fields, meadows, and wayside wild and cultivated 

 flowers, or garden flowers. 



(b) To distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous plants. 



(c) To distinguish between the leaves, bark, and stems of common 



trees the various kinds of plant, stems, and roots modes of 

 growth work of stems shape and uses parts of a flower. 



(d) To notice the various shells on the sea-shore sea-weeds, and 

 animal life on the sea-shore. 



The above constitute the main features of the work of the upper 

 classes. 



In the lower divisions the scholars are taught to observe 



(a) Plants as growing things how seeds grow roots walking, 

 climbing, and extending leaves, their shape, &c. 



(3) To propagate plants from cuttings the simple parts of plants 

 and flowers. 



The methods employed in carrying out the above objects are briefly 

 as follows : 



