54 The Nature-Study Exhibition 



increasing. " Outdoor school " has also been earried on 

 at Stanbury, near Haworth, for a period of six years or 

 more. 



The exhibits sent by the Severn Road Boys' School illus- 

 trated work done upon rambles and of the following kinds : — 



** I. Collecting plants on wayside, field, meadow, and copse. 



2. Examining geological formations and collecting specimens, as 



found in quarries, railway-cuttings, and sea-shore. 



3. Objects of interest in the neighbourhood, such as bridges, viaducts, 



canals, and rivers (formation of beds, &c. ). 



4. Arranging plants into poisonous and non-poisonous classes. 



5. Collecting leaves, bark, and fruit of the common trees in the 



neighbourhood. 



6. Arranging, pressing, and mounting the same. 



7. In the fields — amongst the various grain-crops — wheat, barley, 



rye, and oats. 



8. Preparing geological and botanical specimens for the microscope. 



9. Recitations bearing on Nature-study, illustrated by rambles and 



photographs. 



The leading features in these Rambles are as follows : — 



{a) Scholars are taught to distinguish between flowers and plants 



of the fields, meadows, and wayside — wild and cultivated 



flowers, or garden flowers. 

 {b) To distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous plants, 

 (f ) To distinguish between the leaves, bark, and stems of common 



trees — the various kinds of plant, stems, and roots — modes of 



growth — work of stems — shape and uses — parts of a flower. 

 {d) To notice the various shells on the sea-shore — sea-weeds, and 



animal life on the sea-shore. 



The above constitute the main features of the work of the upper 

 classes. 



In the lower divisions the scholars are taught to observe — 



(rt) Plants as growing things — how seeds grow — roots — walking, 

 climbing, and extending — leaves, their shape, &c. 



[b) To propagate plants from cuttings — the simple parts of plants 

 and flowers. 



The methods employed in carrying out the alx)ve objects are briefly 

 as follows : — 



