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our school life without weakening or detracting from 

 the necessary curriculum, it will be a solid gain. 



THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN 

 NATURE-STUDY 



BY THE REV. CANON STEWARD, PRINCIPAL OF THE 

 TRAINING COLLEGE, SALISBURY 



The subject with which I have been entrusted a 

 very large one is one which, it would seem, goes to 

 the very foundation, on the laying of which the success 

 or failure of the present movement depends. 



And when I look round on the really wonderful 

 work in this exhibition, produced by teachers and 

 scholars in every grade of school both in England 

 and other countries, I cannot but wish that it had 

 been placed in the hands of someone who has had 

 longer actual practical experience in dealing with 

 the teaching of Nature-study. 



After the valuable addresses that we have heard at 

 this conference, I am venturing to take it that there 

 is a general acceptation of the following principles 

 and methods: 



(1) That the seasonal treatment is most natural 



and practical, as was urged by Professor 

 Thomson of Aberdeen. 



(2) That the outdoor work may well be both 



(a) general and discursive, as in a ramble 

 over a large area, and (b) restricted and 

 special, as in a thorough study of some one 



