So HOURS WITH NATURE. 



to stimulate it among the students. With a view to 

 remedy these and other defects, and to improve the 

 minds and status of the teachers, Mr. W. had conceived 

 the idea of a ''School-masters' Union," and had establish- 

 ed the system of winter and summer excursions. To 

 defray the expenses of these excursions, a fund called 

 " School-masters' Union Fund" was started, and to which 

 even the poorest of Pandits very gladly and willingly 

 contributed. The winter sessions were invariably held 

 in Calcutta. Here the school-masters were thrown 

 into the company of cultured European and Indian 

 gentlemen, who one and all endeavoured to make 

 their stay in the city as enjoyable and pleasant as it was 

 in their power to do. 



The principal feature, however, of the Calcutta 

 session was a series of highly interesting and instruc- 

 tive evening lectures on elementary scientific and his- 

 torical subjects with magic lantern exhibitions. The 

 days were spent in visiting the Indian Museum, the 

 Botanic Garden, and other places of interest and 

 instruction. Such in brief is the history of a move- 

 ment under the auspices of whicrAhat gathering of 

 school-masters and Pandits had taken place at the 

 Indian Museum on that forenoon of the year 18. 



BONELESS ANIMALS. 



In order that they might properly .understand the 

 design or scheme underlying the animal creation, Mr. 

 W. had first taken the party round all the zoologi- 



