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What is Nature-Study? 



A CONTRIBUTOR to a recent issue of a 

 leading technical journal has endeavored 

 to find a satisfactory answer to the question, 

 "What is nature-study?" by appealing to "emi- 

 nent scientific men." The answers of these 

 men are printed there in full. 



Now, the nature-study movement is not a 

 product of "eminent scientific men," nor directly 

 of the current natural-science movement. It is 

 a product of the common schools. Eminent 

 scientific attainment, as such, is not to be 

 expected to enable persons to give satisfactory 

 answer to the question, for the subject is not 

 within its realm. Happily, many scientific men 

 are also closely in touch with elementary edu- 

 cation, and therefore are fully competent to 

 discuss the nature-study movement, but it is 



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