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nature-study museum in the St. George's Churchyard 

 Garden. What formerly was the mortuary has been 

 turned to good account, and hundreds of children in the 

 borough benefit by Miss Hall's instruction. Aquaria both 

 for fresh-water fish and shells, and salt-water collections, 

 with a lobster, starfish, sea anemones, and growing sea 

 weeds are to be seen, and moths, butterflies, dragon-flies, 

 pass through all their stages, while toads, frogs, and 

 salamanders and such-like are a great delight. The 

 hedgehog spends his summer in the garden, and 

 hibernates comfortably in the museum. The bees at 

 work in the glass hive are another source of instruc- 

 tion. Outside the museum a special plot is tended by 

 the pupils, who are allowed in turn to work, dig, and 

 prune, and who obtain, under the eye of their sym- 

 pathetic teacher, most creditable results. The charm of 

 this East End garden, and the special educational uses it 

 has been put to, shows what can be achieved, and sets a 

 good example to others, where similar opportunities exist. 

 A less promising neighbourhood for gardening could 

 hardly be imagined, which surely shows that no one need 

 be disheartened. 



Some of the burial-grounds were in such a shocking 

 state before they were taken in hand, that very few of 

 the head-stones remained in their right places, and many 

 had gone altogether, while some even reappeared as pav- 

 ing-stones in the district. Spa Fields, Clerkenwell, had a 

 very chequered history. The site was first a tea garden, 

 near the famous Sadler's Wells. For a few years, from 

 1770, its "little Pantheon" and pretty garden, with a 

 pond or " canal " stocked with fish, and alcoves for tea 

 drinkers, was thronged by the middle class, small trades- 

 men, and apprentices, while the more fashionable world 



