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9. Additions to our collection of New Hampshire insects, made 

 also with a view of mapping the fauna! areas of the state. 



10. Photographs of many insects and the injuries they produce. 

 In addition to these lines of work, which may properly be 



classed under the head of investigations, I have devoted consider- 

 able time to the movement for the introduction of nature study 

 into our schools. There is no need for arguing here the state- 

 ment that in no way can the agricultural conditions of the state in 

 the future be more surely improved than by getting the children 

 of our schools interested in the study of the natural history of 

 their vicinities. For this statement has received the endorsement 

 of practically all the leaders of educational thought, and forms the 

 basis of much excellent work by several of our most progressive 

 stations. In October, 1900, 1 was appointed, by the state educa- 

 tional council, chairman of a committee to outline a course in 

 nature study for the schools of New H amjDshire. Such a course 

 was presented to the council in September, 1901, and recom- 

 mended by the council to the State Teachers' association, by which 

 it was adopted at the annual meeting in October. This course, 

 which was largely prepared by other members of the committee — 

 Miss Lilly P. Shepard of Nashua, and Mr. James H. Johnson of 

 Bradford — will form a working basis for the nature study in our 

 schools for years to come. It is quite comj^lete for the lower 

 grades, but for the upper grades more extended outlines of certain 

 special topics are needed, and I earnestly hope that the Station 

 will be able to publish occasionally for distribution to the teachers 

 of the state a nature study leaflet in which these topics are dis- 

 cussed. In addition to the work upon this outline, I have, on the 

 invitation of the state superintendent of public instruction, dis- 

 cussed various phases of nature study at several teachers' insti- 

 tutes, and had charge of the instruction upon this subject at the 

 state summer institute at Plymouth. 



The department is greatly in need of more entomological and 

 ornithological books, especially the earlier volumes of various 

 series of Transactions of Societies, as well as of more insect cases 

 for the arrangement and display of our collections. 



Clarence M. Weed, 



Entomologist. 



