CONTENTS 



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List of Patrons ... - - - 5 



Executive Committee 6 



Introduction 7 



List of Exhibition Groups 12 



Judges' Report with Awards 13 



Report of Executive Committee - - - - 26 

 The Conferences: 



The Opening Ceremony .89 



First Conference: — 



Address by the Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, M.P., 



President of the Board of Agriculture - - - 97 



The Study of Nature, by the Right Hon. Lord Avebury 99 

 How the County Councils may encourage Nature-study, 



by Mr. Henry Hobhouse, M.P. - - - - 107 



The Facilities for Nature-study, by Professor Geddes - ill 

 The Seasonal Study of Natural History, by Professor J. 



Arthur Thomson 124 



Local Museums as Aids in the Teaching of Nature- 

 knowledge, by Mr. Henry Coates, F.R.S.E. - - 135 



Second Conference: — 



Address by Lord Strathcona, G.C.M.G., High Com- 

 missioner for Canada 137 



Nature-study in Elementary Education, by Professor C. 



Lloyd Morgan, F.R.S. 139 



How to bring Children into touch with Nature, by 



Mrs. Franklin 150 



The Teaching of Nature-knowledge in Urban Schools, 



by Mr. H. Major 156 



The Teacher as Observer, by Miss Mary Simpson - 161 



Trees as a Means of Nature-study, by Mr. John Evans 167 



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