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NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



[11:7— Oct., 1915 



ninety-six different kinds of seeds and a collection of insects num- 

 bering over sixty. A locust exhibit showed the leaf scars, leaf 

 buds, leaves, flower buds, flowers, bark, wood, pods, seeds, and 

 roots bearing the nodules. A corn exhibit showed a young com 

 plant, the two kinds of blossoms, the grain and thirty different 

 products made from com. 



In the fourth grade, two pupils each ten years old, mounted speci- 

 mens of trees. One collection consisted of leaves, bark, and cones 

 of the evergreens found in this vicinity. Six nutbearing trees were 

 represented by blossoms, leaves, bark and nuts; several truit trees 

 by blossoms, leaves, bark and seed. The fourth collection repre- 

 sented several common shade and forest trees. A miscellaneous 

 collection consisted of the tent caterpillar in all stages of growth 

 and its tent ; tadpoles from one week old to a fully developed frog ; 

 fungi, mud wasp's nests, snail shells and a squirrel's nest. There 

 were also several turtles' eggs, a crayfish, and two hornets' nests, 

 one, showing the outside and one the inside and some of the 

 hornets. 



In the second grade were three boys, each eight years of age. 

 They had a collection of grains, one of grasses, one of plants, one 

 of weeds and one of clovers, and they took as much pride in mount- 

 ing and marking them as the older ones did. 



All the children enjoy this work very much because it is real live 

 work and they can see the results of their labor. Being interested 

 in this they become interested in school work in general and conse- 

 quently do better work. 



So many teachers have said to meit would be impossible for them 

 to do such work because they do not know the specimens and would 

 not know how to go at it. These difficulties confronted me but 

 I have found, as these teachers would, that there is a world of 

 truth in the old adage, "One learns to do by doing." 



