INTRODUCTION 5 



not suggested that children in their nature-study should make those 

 accumulations which are generally recognised under the name. Such 

 specimens as the set of leaves already indicated, series of twining 

 plants, and stages in the growth of insects which have been reared, are 

 those which are useful and to be encouraged. A rough investigation 



* FIGURE 3. A Map showing the method of recording observations by the use of flag labels. 



into the animals and plants which inhabit some particular and 

 definite area, may call for any or all the methods of recording we 

 have alluded to. Instead of keeping specimens, however, after 

 they have been once recognised, they may be allowed to go free, and 



* This idea was first illustrated at the Nature-Study Exhibition, 1902, by Miss Ethel 

 Webb, of Streatham High School. 



