X METHOD OF TEACHING. 



a valuable fuel. Nearly all the products of tlie soil can be utilized 

 for our requirements, and it is therefore important to know them 

 in order to be able to use them, and to draw from them all possible 

 advantages. 



It is ignorance of these elements of science which leads to 

 those gross errors and absurd prejudices which are really relics of 

 barbarism, and which must be unceasingly opposed by demon- 

 strating the simple truth, and disseminating this indispensable 

 knowledge. 



This elementary course of Natural History may be divided 

 into about thirty lessons, and we shall rapidly point out what each 

 of them may include ; but it is obvious that they may be extended, 

 shortened, or modified, according to the time which can be given 

 to them, and the special interest which such and such a portion 

 may possess in connection with the district where the lesson is 

 given, etc., etc. 



1st Lesson. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. Division into Three 

 Kingdoms (pp. 1-5). Man Races of Men (pp. 6-7). 



Three diagrams, one of each kingdom, must be necessarily 

 consulted to furnish examples. 



The importance of the study of Man has given him a separate 

 and comparatively large section in the work. We have therefore 

 gone more into particulars in this chapter than the others, and 

 have kept it quite distinct. 



2nd Lesson. MAN. Structure of the Human Body. Skeleton, 

 Muscles. Organs of Digestion, of the Circulation of the Blood, 

 and Respiration ; General Observations. Respiration and Circu- 

 lation (pp. 7-15, diagrams 1 and 2). 



3rd Lesson. MAN. Digestion. Nervous System. Organs of 

 the Senses. Voice (pp. 15-25, diagrams 1 and 2). 



4th Lesson. ANIMAL KINGDOM. Sub-kingdoms. VERTEBRATA 

 MAMMALIA, General Remarks. Quadrumana. Insectivora 

 (pp. 26-36, diagram 3). 



5th Lesson. MAMMALIA. Carnivora. Rodentia (pp 36-45, 

 diagram 3). 



