i86 Lessons in Mure Study* 



COLLECTIONS DURING VACATION. 



WHAT TO COLLECT FOR NATURE STUDY AND HOW TO 

 COLLECT IT. 



The progressive country teacher who is face to face with 

 nature all the time hardly needs to ask, " What shall I collect 

 during the summer vacation to interest my pupils next year ? " 

 She has but to direct the observing powers of her pupils into 

 the ever-widening channels of nature study, and she reaps 

 a harvest of curiosities for her cabinet of which many a 

 museum might be proud. 



The city teacher, penned up between brick walls, with a 

 brewery on her right and a livery-stable on her left, high 

 buildings in the rear and a noisy street in front, must make 

 collections in the far-away country, at the seaside, among 

 the mountains, or anywhere out of the hurly-burly of her 

 daily life. 



Do I hear some tired teacher exclaim, " Vacation collec- 

 tions. Out upon them ! Let us rest ! " and the like ? True, 

 you are not paid to collect objects in the summer. True, 

 your labors are at an end when your reports for June are in. 

 But if you can rest your tired body, if you can gain a fund 

 of fresh zeal and energy, if you can do something that will 

 make your next year's work easier, more interesting, and 

 profitable by collecting materials for nature study, aren't you 

 willing to do it ? 



Let us, then, suppose that you are going out of town for 

 part of the summer vacation ; no matter where. Nature is 

 lavish in her distribution of things for study. No matter 



