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lege for Women Teachers, the formicarium from the 

 Stepney Museum, and so on, but the keeping of Hve 

 animals in schools seems to us rather a difficult 

 problem. Unless it can be done really well — which 

 implies no small expenditure of time and loving care- 

 fulness — it is better not done at all. In country dis- 

 tricts nothing more than a very brief imprisonment 

 need be aimed at. Even then care is needed to 

 secure that the natural conditions of the animals' 

 existence are approximately recognized during the 

 captivity. 



(vii) School Rambles. — Some exhibits, notably 

 that from the Board School, Arnot Street, Liverpool, 

 illustrate in a very interesting way the utilization of 

 school excursions in education. The method secures 

 the stimulus of more or less new scenes, the indul- 

 gence of the exploring instinct, the adding to the 

 school museum or study-material by the pupils them- 

 selves, the study of things in situ, and so on. To 

 select one precise point, it is evident to us that the 

 lantern slides, illustrating geological features, made 

 from photographs taken on one of the " school- 

 journeys", are greatly to be preferred to purchased 

 material, even if that happened to be technically 

 superior. 



And here we may notice as particularly worthy of 

 commendation a few cases in which a practical pro- 

 blem, immediately real to the scholars — whether 

 basket- making or a big alteration in the school 

 buildings — has been utilized as a focus for individual 

 scientific work on the part of the scholars. 



(VIII) Simple Apparatus.— We wish strongly to 

 commend a few exhibits, e.g. from the South-Eastern 



