Who first used the term Nature-Study? 25 



nature-study and met monthly in Boston. Mr. 

 G. H. Martin, Agent of the Board of Edu- 

 cation, was chairman, and Mr. Boyden was 

 secretary. They worked out courses of study 

 for distribution, and one year they had a large 

 exhibit from the whole State of the results of 

 the work. These exhibits were common in 

 cities between 1890 and 1895. 



Amos M. Kellogg, editor of the "New York 

 School Journal" from 1874 to 1904, was one 

 of the early writers and advocates on the neces- 

 sity of drawing on the world about us in the 

 education of the young. Visiting a school in 

 Monroe County, Pennsylvania, in 1885, where 

 the teacher was imbued with enthusiasm in this 

 direction and asked for special directions, he 

 suggested to Frank Owen Payne (who was then 

 a regular contributor to the "School Journal"), 

 the preparation of specific lessons; as the term 

 nature-study came to be used he suggested to 

 Mr. Payne the need of the hyphen between the 

 words, and this came to be in regular employ- 

 ment. The specific lessons prepared by Mr. 

 Payne took the title of "One Hundred Lessons 



