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NA T URE-ST UD Y RE VIE W 



[14:3— Mar., 191S 



You will see this is to be an extraordinary meeting. You will miss a treat 

 if you are not there. Willis E. Chandler, President. 



Martin Bowe, Secretary. 



Special Request: Will you kindly bring to this meeting a written suggestion 

 for one trip to be taken next season? 



Miss Schofield's School 



NEW YORK 



Bath. In the rural school at Unionville, three miles from Bath, some genuine 

 nature-study is being done under the direction of Miss Jennie Schofield. The 

 twenty -one boys and girls are doing things. 



They have learned to recognize trees by their leaves so that on a recent 

 trip some of them could write down the names of as many as 29 out of 32 as 

 fast as their teacher pointed them out. No one above the first grade knew less 

 than 12. They have made leaf collections for themselves and for the school, 

 and are now learning identification of leafless trees, besides making a thorough 

 study of the Norway Pine. 



In their school herbarium they have over 60 wild flowers and weeds which 

 they have collected during the noon hours, and pressed and labelled. Their 

 collection of weed and other seeds they have placed in small bottles to be 

 mounted and labelled with name, name of pupil, and grade. 



The boys have built a terrarium in which they watched caterpillars spinning 

 their cocoons, or burying themselves in the ground. 



Their aquarium has contained all the fall, a tadpole which had developed 

 its hind legs, and two black-nosed dace, caught in his hands by a little boy 

 at a nearby brook. The dace and the tadpole had lived happily together for 

 more than five weeks, the fish nearly doubling in size on a diet of fish food. 

 A recent cold snap in the weather cracked the glass of the aquarium, so the 

 boys decided to release the inhabitants. 



