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ning out is unnecessary, brown paper may serve. Shingles 

 and papers can then be burned. 



A METHOD OF KEEPING NOTES. 



Instead of having students record their permanent 

 notes in a bound note-book, the following plan is recom- 

 mended : 



Each student gets two pads, one ruled, for descrip- 

 tions ; the other unruled, for drawings. A good linen 

 paper serves well for the latter. The sheets are detached 

 and handed in to the teacher, with drawings and descrip- 

 tions as called for. If the pads are five inches by seven 

 inches, they can be conveniently carried between the leaves 

 of the Practical Zoology, but the most convenient way is 

 to have the book covered, and to carry the sheets in the 

 pockets of the cover inside the lids of the book. Each 

 student should have an envelope half an inch wider than 

 the pads, with the open end cut off an inch shorter than 

 the pads, and the student's name and the name of the 

 study (zoology, in this case) on the envelope near the open 

 end. This will keep the sheets together, and the project- 

 ing (top) ends will allow easy examination of the papers. 

 If several sheets are to be handed in at one time, the envel- 

 ope should be used. One hundred sheets in each pad will 

 probably be enough for a term's work. This plan saves 

 time for teacher and pupil ; lessens the risk of losing all 

 the work, or spoiling all by accident to one paper ; allows 

 any arrangement of topics. At the end of the term the 

 notes can be arranged as desired, a table of contents made, 

 or perhaps even an index, and the whole bound at the 

 top. Thus the binding only takes the unused part of the 



