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A. In the senior division country rambles form the basis of all the 

 Nature-study. Before a ramble commences, a lesson is given to 

 the class, drawing attention to the following points : — 



Plants to be searched for — pictures and photographs are shown 

 of these plants — any dried specimens to hand are exhibited 

 and examined, thus each ramble has a definite object in view. 



B. The specimens collected on a ramble are afterwards classified, 

 pressed, mounted, and named. 



C. Another lesson then follows, and specimens are selected for the 

 drawing lessons and for use with the microscope. 



D. Notes, drawings, and a map of the route are all roughly entered 

 at the time in scholars' note-books." 



As examples of other urban schools where rambles have 

 been successfully introduced may be mentioned several 

 under the Leeds Board, the Walton Lane School (Infants 

 Department), Liverpool — which has devised a scheme of 

 Nature-study in connection with an adjacent park — as well 

 as those at Cadoxton and Padiham, where geology is a 

 feature of the excursions. 



Bellenden Road Higher Grade School will claim atten- 

 tion in the next section, but some notes on the short excur- 

 sions from this school are given here: — 



"Day Outings. — These are taken less frequently than formerly, 

 owing to the railway companies declining to take parties on Saturdays 

 in June, July, and August. The permission to go in school time, lately 

 accorded, is not taken advantage of to any extent — as only twenty boys 

 can go with a master, and the other forty belonging to the class have 

 to be accommodated. 



Localities Visited — 



Charlton (half-day). Geolog>' and Natural History in Greenwich 



Park. 

 Purley and Riddlesdown. Geology chiefly. 

 Ashtead. Natural History in the woods. 

 Epping Forest. Natural History. 

 Shirley. Formation of scenery. 

 Zoological Gardens (half-day). 

 Jermyn Street Museum (half-day). 

 South Kensington Museums (half-day). 



