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display in the school. A Nature-study calendar of this type, 

 made by a little girl, was shown by Llangattock School. In 

 some cases other names are used, as at St. Michael's-on- 

 Wyre National School, Lancashire, where the term " Obser- 

 vation Sheet " is employed. 



(3) Nature Survey Maps. — Maps may be made to form 

 most useful records of Nature-study. The head-master of 

 Bitterne Park School, Southampton, says: — 



** The particular phase of Nature-study which my exhibits were intended 

 to illustrate was the life-history of the plants and animals which come 

 under the actual observation of my scholars. 



"The natural aids which I found in field and hedgerow are set out, 

 so far as plant life is concerned, in my floral map of the Woodmill 

 River, and in the planting of my school garden with English forest 

 trees and shrubs." 



St. Michael's-on-Wyre National School sent a hand-drawn 

 map with the school as centre, which was variously-coloured 

 and annotated to show what facilities exist in the area taken, 

 for the study by the children of plants, insects, and other 

 animals. 



(4) Collections. — Specimens when kept as records of actual 

 observations made may prove exceedingly useful. The charts 

 illustrating pond-life shown by the Orlestone Board School 

 are a case in point. 



"These charts contain — 



(a) Mounted skins of newts which have been shed in the Orlestone 

 Board School while the newts were actually under observation. 



{b) Skins of horse-leeches which have been shed in the aquarium 

 before the class and have afterwards been preserved in spirits, 

 being so extremely fine as to be invisible when mounted on 

 paper. The date when these and the newt skins were shed 

 are recorded in the pupils' nature-study note-books. 



(<■) Skins of dragon-fly grubs moulted in the aquarium before the 

 class. 



{ct) A newt shedding its skin. 



{e) A newt about to shed its skin, and showing air-bubbles under 

 the skin 



