40 The Nature-Study Exhibition 



showing the life-history of a mouse, made at King Alfred's 

 School, Hampstead. 



The photographs of birds' nests and eggs, made by a girl 

 at Roedean School, Brighton, and by a boy at Bedales 

 School, Petersfield, showed how they had brought photo- 

 graphy to bear upon their Nature-study. Sexey's Trade 

 School exhibited a regional plant survey map, and the 

 County School, Chippenham, a field-plan, with natural his- 

 tory data compiled by pupils. The Girls' Blue School at 

 Wells may also be mentioned, particularly in connection 

 with its outdoor study. 



At St. Margaret's, Bushey, the " modern discovery case " 

 affords a place for anything for the time unknown to the 

 girl who finds it, and the " field-club table " is a resting-place 

 for the results of a ramble. A wild-flower calendar, illus- 

 trated by specimens of flowers found in a single lane near 

 the High School, Cirencester, diff"ered somewhat from the 

 other nature calendars exhibited, furnishing an example of 

 simple but conscientious work in the immediate environ- 

 ment of a school. Nature diaries and note-books, as well as 

 published journals containing out-of-the-way observations, — 

 as in "Holly Berries" of the University College Preparatory 

 School — formed a noteworthy feature of this section. The 

 Ladies' College, Cheltenham, sent a collective exhibit, and 

 this institution, besides undertaking such kindergarten, 

 school science, and field-club work as has been described, 

 provides courses of botany, zoology, and physiography for 

 its Day Training Department students. All the latter give 

 "nature lessons" in the practising schools which "encourages 

 them to collect materials, to study the habits of animals, and 

 to go on long expeditions into the country to find flowers 

 and fruits, and to hunt in ponds for water-beetles, dragon-fly 

 larvae, and caddises ". 



Curatorial work was well illustrated by the DoUman 

 Brothers' life-histories of insects, which formed part of the 



