INTRODUCTION 6 



Manual for Insects, Comstock. 

 The Aquarium, Mark Samuels. 



Directions for Collecting Insects (free), Smithsonian Institute, 

 Washington, D.C. 



Plants : 



Plants and Their Children, Mrs. Dana. 

 Bud and Leaf, 1 



Flower and Fruit, I . 



Botanical Reader, Part I. , 



Botanical Reader, Part II., 



Story of the Trees, Mrs. Dyer. 



Familiar Trees and Their Leaves, Schuyler Matthews. 



Earth Sciences : 



Earth and Its Story, Heilprin. 



Thirty -six Observation Lessons on Common Minerals, Clapp. 

 First Lesson on Minerals, Mrs. Richards. 

 Common Rocks and Minerals, Crosby. 

 Ocean of Air, 1 



Father Aldur, i Alice Gibcrne. 



Earth and Its Foundation, J 



Instruction to Voluntary Observers (free), Weather Bureau, 

 Washington, D.C. 



Miscellaneous : 



Murch^'s Science Readers. 



Nature Study, Jackman. 



Fairy Land of Science, Arabella Buckley. 



Tommy Anne, Mabel O.sgood Wright. 



Perhaps nine out of ten teachers, if asked what is the 

 advantage of Nature Study to the oliild, wouhl say that it 

 consists in the training of the observation through the 

 senses. These are the days when " Sense-Training "' is 

 the Shibboleth ; and, perhaps, so-called " Nature Study " 

 has contributed more than any other one thing to raise 

 on high this new god ; or, it may be, that Nature Study 

 exists in our schools because the new god rules. 



