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Vol. 12 February, 1916 No. 2 



Through the courtesy of the school authorities of Los Angeles, 

 Cal., I have been able to obtain a great number of photographs 

 depicting the activities of the schools of that city. Among these is 

 the one enclosed, which shows four thousand school children from 

 Los Angeles, on the sea beach near the light house at Point Firmin, 

 Cal., engaged in Nature-Study. This is such an excellent photo- 

 graph and is illustrative of such an interesting phase of Nature- 

 Study in the public schools, that I am taking a chance on your 

 being able to use it either on the cover of your publication or as a 

 frontispiece without an accompanying article. Should you desire 

 a write-up of this particular expedition or of some phase of the work 

 in Los Angeles, I shall be pleased to send it to you. 



Very truly yours, 

 Thomas J. Davis. 



On the Training of Teachers of Nature-Study 



R. E. Wager 



That a study of the world of Nature should be a part of the 

 education of the child has been admitted since the early reformers 

 pled for a more natural method. That our present system pro- 

 vides for such direct contact with Nature as our modern knowledge 

 advises is far from a fact. The enthusiasm of a quarter century 

 ago, with the belief that at last the touch-stone had been found, 

 has waxed and waned, and the educator betimes pauses to re-exam- 

 ine the basis for his faith in it. For this test has he summoned his 

 biologica., pedagogical, and philosophical principles, in order to 

 give the thing a thorough inspection There must be no mistake. 

 And out of it has come a renewed belief in Nature-Study as a funda- 



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