46 SCHOOL COURSES. 



I. Vegetable Matter : 



Dead : yielding Humic Acids, C0 2 . 



Seeds. 

 Living : 



( Bulbs. 



I Ehizomes, Eoots. 

 \ Tubers, Corms. 



Lesson : The plant world in winter. Where stores are 

 kept. 



Lessons on characteristics of the above. 



II. Animal Inhabitants : 



Earthworm. 



Mole. 



Hibernating Mammals : Hedgehogs, Shrews, Voles. 



Hibernating Eeptiles : Lizards and Snakes. 



Hibernating larvae and pupae. 



Beetles, Bees, and Wasps. 



Ants. 



Centipedes, Millipedes, Spiders. 



Wood lice. 



Slugs and Snails, etc. 



/ Eabbits. 

 Burrowers ] Badgers. 



( Foxes. 



A general lesson on the Winter Life of Animals ; also 

 detailed studies of particular examples of the foregoing, 

 particularly those materially affecting the soil, e.g. Earth- 

 worm and Mole. See pp. 131, 176. 



This classification of vegetable and animal constituents 

 should be worked out on blackboard and in note-books by 

 teachers and pupils as a study in itself. 



