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for such work are most unfavorable, in some respects, 

 in the schools of great cities. In other schools, the 

 teacher is limited only by her own lack of interest, 

 energy, knowledge, or time. 



The work outlined above prepares for but one side of 

 geography, physical geography. Keeping in view the 

 other centre of school-work, man study, the children 

 in the primary grades must also study a little about 

 man, beginning with their own home, and continuing 

 with the help of such books as Miss Andrews' " Seven 

 Little Sisters " and " Each and All." 



In the upper grades the work in nature study* and 

 geography must diverge much more. How can the 

 work in science in these grades be made most helpful 

 in geography? 



Here we can give more attention to the systematic 

 observation and record of the relations of the earth to 

 other heavenly bodies. We can observe the northward 

 or southward movements of the sun from week to week ; 

 the changes in the position and appearance of the moon, 

 and its movements among the stars; the daily or nightly 

 movements of stars or constellatigns, such as the mo- 

 tion of the Great Dipper about the pole star; the move- 

 ments of the planets, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, among 

 the stars and with reference to the sun. Then what 

 the pupils learn in geography about the relations of the 

 earth, sun, moon, planets, and stars will mean some- 

 thing. 



It seems wise to study much more carefully the com- 



