i8 The Nature-Study Exhibition 



Agricultural College, Wye, Kent, and from the Thorn- 

 hill School, Wye, which show the utilization of very 

 simple apparatus, and even home-made instruments, 

 in demonstrating scientific facts of great educational 

 value. 



(IX) Scope of ** Nature-study ".—Apart from 

 awards, we wish to commend those exhibits which 

 have in some measure recognized that "Nature-study", 

 both in educational theory and in the practical sug- 

 gestions of the Education Department, implies an 

 appreciative outlook upon the whole environment, 

 and that not from a scientific view-point only, but 

 from the aesthetic and practical as well. It is cer- 

 tainly not confined to herbarium-making and shell- 

 collecting, nor even to the life of plants and animals 

 throughout the year; it includes a complete regional 

 survey. 



Though we did not find ourselves able to make 

 awards in regard to astronomical and meteorological 

 exhibits, we wish to commend the inclusion of these 

 and other aspects within the scope of "Nature-study". 

 There were some interesting exhibits illustrating the 

 use of a school-telescope, the study of the moon's 

 phases, and so on, just as there were others that 

 showed that educational value was being got out of 

 the theodolite and the sun-dial. 



While it is obviously important that the kind of 

 study to which emphasis is given should be that most 

 congruent with the immediate environment and with 

 the teacher's previous training, we wish to emphasize 

 the wide scope of " Nature-study ". 



