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exhibit from St. Paul's School. From the Eton College 

 exhibit it could be seen how a school museum, by the 

 help of simple but effective modern methods, may be used 

 to illustrate types for practical teaching and to exhibit the 

 local fauna and flora of a district, giving at the same time 

 special attention to the more or less neglected groups of 

 animals about which Uttle is known to the ordinary observer. 



Group C. In this group, which was by far the 



Character of largest, the exhibits may be considered 

 the Exhibits, under the following heads : — 



I. — Observational Lessons. 



A. Lessons on specimens gathered by the pupils. 



B. Descriptive lessons — Composition. 



C. Records. 



D. Drawing, Painting, and Modelling from natural 



objects. 



//. — Nature-study. 



A. Physical Aspects of Nature. 



B. Animals and Plants under control. 



C. Field Work. 



III. — Economic Nature-study. 



A. Horticulture. 



B. Poultry- and Bee-keeping. 



C. Agriculture. 



I.— OBSERVATIONAL LESSONS 



A very great deal of the work shown at the Exhibition 

 represented formal lessons in this group as in others. 



A. Lessons on Specimens gathered by the Pupils. 



— Some of the lessons which must be included under the 

 present heading were given out-of-doors, but the majority of 



