150 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [17:4— April, 1921 



which they adore looking at. Last summer they were shown the 

 circulation of blood in a frog's leg and the feathery wing of a butter- 

 fly. Many a happy half hour was spent with the microscope. 

 We have the necessary apparatus for drying specim.ens and mount- 

 ing the same. The younger children adore taking home carefully 

 mounted specimens of butterflies and beetles. Some years we 

 have collected m-aterial for the use of nature study in the public 

 schools of New York. 



In the farm houses are also boxes covered with netting where 

 caterpillars are being carefully fed and watched vmtil they spin 

 their cocoons, ants of various kinds are there being fed and watched 

 from day to day. The girls warder about this room and learn 

 just by seeing the things abcut them. 



Keeping bees came naturally to camp when we had to conserve 

 sugar, not that we profited m.uch in this way but it gave another 

 excuse for learning a wonderful art. 



Cur camp is divided into units of twenty to a unit, five councilors 

 and fifteen girls. In the morning after assembly a unit goes to the 

 farm, half of the unit has horseback riding and the other half 

 gardening and nature lore. They then turn about, the girls who 

 had horseback riding now have gardening and the girls who were 

 gardening have the horses. It makes a happy combination. 

 In the afternoon another unit goes to the farm and the same 

 program is carried out. It enables each girl to have this experience 

 three times each week. 



Besides these hours at the farm we have a set of walks, bird 

 walks, a swamp walk, a shore walk, when we go to the ocean, a 

 deep woods walk, a cross country walk, a roadside walk, a trail 

 walk and the kind of a walk one would take with a five year old. 



Back of all this we have established two ranks in nature lore, 

 which the girls may attain during the summer. ' We have a printed 

 list of the honors which they may win. These lists serve as pegs 

 upon which they can assemble what they learn. From the list 

 are selected those which they must learn to attain to the ranks. 

 The first rank is that of a Toddler. This name may seem queer 

 but it is to impress upon the girl that she is not learning nature lore 

 for herself alone. There will always be toddlers asking questions 

 and the easiest time to learn how to answer these questions is 

 when she herself is young. What opportunities are lost by not 

 being able to answer simple questions asked by a little child! 



