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



The limited space of an article of this nature leaves many 

 points of interest untouched. We have simply noted some of the 

 high spots. We should like to tell about some of our woodland 

 pets — our "m.ost dear" tree toad, for example — or of our observa- 

 tion ant nest. In these few paragraphs, however, one can give 

 only enough to indicate the spirit of the summer's efforts. This 

 was that nature study should m.ean to these girls som.ething bigger 

 than the naming of ten ferns and twenty-five flowers and thirty 

 trees, — som.iething which would make their "hearts leap up when 

 they beheld a rainbow in the skies" and would lead them to be, — 

 like God's good world, — ^"rugged and wholesom.e and true." 



Nature Study at Highland Nature Camp 



Allen Barrows Doggett 

 2331 Foster Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The stmimer camps for boys and girls, scattered from Maine to 

 Colorado, are nature's own schools — ^with study halls by every 

 road and lakeside, text books in every tree and opening flower, 

 and hours that are set neither by the rising of the sun nor the 

 fading of the stars. The Director of nature study, in any camp, 

 may do little more than unlock the doors and introduce his or her 

 students to a few familiar friends and faces; leaving, always, 

 however, a strong desire to know and see m.ore. Such a desire 

 can hardly be awakened except by one who is familiar with nature 

 and her ways and able to impress upon awakening nature — intelli- 

 gence the beauties, the lovable qualities and the peculiar relation- 

 ships of this or that tree or flower or woodland creature. 



At our camp (Highland Nature), we began with the Jimiors 

 because they had the least acquaintance with nature. Some had 

 seen little of real country before; they were eager to learn and had 

 fewer interests in the more strenuous camp activities. We felt 

 that every new experience should and would make a lasting im- 

 pression upon their lives; they, in turn, would fill up the ranks 

 of the Camp Nature — lovers, as they returned, year after year, 

 and became interested, observing Intermediates and Seiiors. 



Our method was to take a little group of perhaps twenty (always 

 about ten too many) for a walk, telling them that before reaching a 

 certain bridge, a few hundred yards away, we should find at least 



