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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



of New York 

 City, the Dis- 

 trict of Colum- 

 bia, Philadel- 

 p h i a, Pitts- 

 burgh. St. 

 Louis, Indian- 

 apolis other 

 cities issuing 

 less formal 

 printed 

 schemes. There 

 seems to be a 

 very fair con- 

 s e n s u s of 

 opinion on the 

 part of the 

 framers of 

 these courses 

 with respect to 

 the grading of 

 the instruction 

 in nature study 

 for the several 

 school grades : 

 the time al- 

 lowed for its 

 teaching per 

 school day; 

 the material to 

 be employed ; 



FIG. 2. MATERIAL USED FOR TRANSPORTING COLLECTIONS 



These are the boxes, trays and jars used at the St. Louis Educational Museum in sending 

 out what is required at the Nature Study recitations in the public schools of that city. 



the amount 

 and character 

 of the field 

 work, and so 

 on for other 

 activities 

 involved. 



In a brief 

 article like the 

 present one, it. 

 will be quite 

 out of the 

 question to set 

 forth the vast 

 importance of 

 nature study in 

 our public 

 schools, for its 

 beneficial ef- 

 fects reach far 

 into all lines of 

 human activ- 

 ity. In an ele- 

 mentary way, 

 it should be 

 commenced in 

 the first grade 

 and, with in- 

 creasing com- 

 plexity and 



FIG a A NATURE STUDY CLASS STUDYING JAPAN 



Elementary ethnology is included in Nature Study in many of the schools. Note the fine series of birds and flower pictures 



arranged on the blackboards. 



