198 THE NATURE STUDY COURSE. 



SOURCES OF ASSISTANCE. 



In using books remember the cautions and directions given 

 on pages 25, 34, 58 and 129. According as they are rightly 

 or wrongly used will they prove a help or a hindrance to 

 Nature Study teaching. 



The books named at the foot of page 24, except Nos. 4 and 7, contain 

 a number of lessons many of which have been referred to in their 

 appropriate places in these pages. " Public School Nature Study," see 

 page 25, presents fifty-nine lessons on the most common topics by the 

 catechetical method, the only method for the pupil and usually the best 

 one for the teacher. References to lessons (for which see Index) in 

 these and other books have been made throughout the pages. 



On the following topics, which are either specifically mentioned in the 

 Courses of Study or which are very likely to engage attention, assistance 

 along Nature Study lines may be obtained as indicated : — 



Hepatica, spring-beauty, adder's tongue, jack-in-the-pulpit, in Mrs. 

 Comstock's " My Own Book of Three Flowers in April and May " (pp. 

 60, illus. ; 25c. Am. Bk. Co. ) 



Jewel- weed, in Morley's " Few Familiar Flowers " (see p. 158 ; pp. 

 274, illus. ; 60c. Ginn & Co.) 



Anemone, crowfoots, shepherd's purse, violets, oak, grasses, and 

 about sixty other plants. The treatment is systematic and morpho- 

 logic ; not suited to the lower grades. In Woods' " How to Study 

 Plants," for Teachers' Reading Circles (pp. 308, 53, 30, illus.; $1.00. 

 Am. Bk. Co.) 



Indoor Studies of the pea, onion, apple, potato, etc , in Carter's 

 "Nature Studies with Common Things" (pp. 150, illus ; 60c. Am. 

 Bk. Co.) 



Mushrooms, golden-rod, pine, and thirty other lessons in Overton 

 and Hill's "Nature Study" (pp. 142, illus.; 40c. Am. Bk. Co.) 



Food, nests, nestlings, etc., of cat-bird, flicker, and nineteen other- 

 birds, in Walker's " Our Birds and Their Nestlings " (pp. 208, illus. ; 60c. 

 Am. Bk. Co.) 



