HISTORY OF NATURE-STUDY 13 



independently by Frank Owen Payne. He com- 

 pounded it, using the hyphen at the suggestion 

 of A. N. Kellogg. Mr. Payne began his work 

 in nature-study in 1884, when a teacher in Corry, 

 Pennsylvania. In 1886-1889 he lectured on the \ 

 subject in Minnesota, and later in New Jersey. 

 Beginning with 1889, he became a regular con- 

 tributor to the New York School Journal, there 

 using the term nature-study. 



Many schools in several States were introduc- 

 ing elementary science in the latter part of the 

 eighties, and it seems that several of them began 

 to use the term nature-study without knowing 

 where or how the term was suggested. The 

 nature-study idea is now widespread and thor- 

 oughly established. It marks an epochal change 

 of front in the aims of education as regards 

 science teaching. 



