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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FIG. s. LIVING SPECIMEN OF THE FAMOUS GLASS SNAKE 



Excellent material to bring before a Nature Study Class ; it is a limbless American lizard from Florida, and an entirely harm- 

 less one. To avoid capture, it frequently parts with its tail, which eventually grows out again; this has happened to the present 

 specimen. 



tures and arrangements 

 found upon Earth as placed 

 there by man erected by 

 him. 



Where a city has its natu- 

 ral history museum ; its well- 

 equipped zoological garden ; 

 its botanical gardens; its 

 nature laboratories, and its 

 ])ublic aquaria, these are, 

 each and all, of the greatest 

 service to the teachers of 

 nature study in the public 

 schools of that city ; and 

 most American cities, con- 

 taining the requisite popu- 

 lations to support such in- 

 stitutions, possess these ad- 

 juncts to civilization and 

 progress. 



In most of our public 

 schools nature study and 

 gardening, or elementary 

 agriculture in its various de- 

 partments, are more or less 

 closely associated indeed, 

 the booklets that have been 

 issued by the schools stand 

 for this arrangement. The 

 plan is an excellent one ; but 

 in this place only the read- 

 ers' attention can be invited 

 to the fact. 



In a pamphlet of nearly 

 seventy i)ages, Mr. Myron J. 

 Walter, Director of the De- 



FIG. 6. MANY MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES TO STUDY 



The well-known Luna moth from life, seen on side view. A 

 Maryland specimen in the author's collection, and it 

 is of a lovely pale green color. 



partment of Nature Study 

 and School Gardens of Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, pre- 

 sents a course of nature 

 study most valuable and in- 

 teresting, and Mr. William 

 M. Davidson, Superinten- 

 dent of the Schools of that 

 city, says in his preface to 

 that course that the material 

 outlined will, of necessity, 

 be correlated by the wise 

 teacher "with the proper 

 Ijranches in the school cur- 

 riculum, particularly Geog- 

 raphy and Language." Ex- 

 cellent advice is presented 

 by Mr. Walter on "The Field 

 Trip ; the Museum ; the 

 Aquarium ; on Charts and 

 Calendars ; on Correlation ; 

 on The Teacher, on Prepa- 

 ration, Application, Time," 

 and so on. The recommen- 

 dations for the study of 

 plants, flowers, seeds, trees, 

 insects, birds, and mammals, 

 could hardly be improved 

 upon, and all these subjects 

 are fitted to the various 

 school grades. Here is an 

 example. Under "Insects" 

 for the fourth year we read : 

 "Review carefully the life 

 history of moths and butter- 

 flies, also the differences be- 



