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were seen personally by the instructor. The answer is 

 simple. Every member was free to write to headquarters 

 at any time and it is the written testimony of parents, 

 governesses, tutors and teachers in schools, and it was 

 the testimony of many of the adult pupils that the making 

 of these records proved to be of the greatest benefit in 

 many ways to those who, like these two children, have 

 made these simple graphic records. In one private school, 

 where all the members of the school were for more than 

 a year obliged once a week to present a record of observed 

 phenomena in nature, the teacher reports that nothing ever 

 introduced into her school has ever been of so great bene- 

 fit to her young ladies. As she said, "My girls have 

 learned to see." 



This plan of recording the temperature, clouds and wind 

 is not original with the writer, and it is only noted here 

 because, during the time the school was open, many hun- 

 dreds of such records passed under his observation and 

 the school 'gave an opportunity to try an educational 

 experiment of a somewhat novel character upon a very 

 large scale and with the best results. The recording of 

 these three phenomena is but the beginning of what might 

 be done. The point that seems to be of most value is this: 

 the study of any variable phenomena includes the ele- 

 ment of time and this makes it possible to record the 

 observations in the form of diagrams or in the graphic 

 method and these very graphic records are in themselves 

 useful both in training the student and in enabling him to 

 make comparisons of records extending over a long time. 



Any series of facts having relation to time, quantity, 

 distance or variableness may be made the subject of 

 graphic record. There is infinite variety in nature and 

 even the commonest facts observed by young people from 

 day to day may be made the subject of most interesting 

 study. 



The temperature, wind and clouds have, in the writer's 



