70 The Nature-Study Exhibition 



Group D. The majority of the work from Evening 



CharacteP of Continuation -schools was shown in the 

 the Exhibits. collective exhibits of Group A. 



At Pailton Evening Continuation -school drawing from 

 nature is carried on in the way indicated below: — 



'* Materials used besides paper and pencil: — 

 id. box of Brown's crayons. 

 id. cakes of soft paints. 



*' These the pupils are eager to buy. Only those boys do this work 

 who have shown an interest in leaves, fruits, and flowers. At the end 

 of each year, twelve of the best drawings are selected and are put into 

 a frame and hung on the school walls as a specimen of the year's work. 

 There are five such sheets hanging in the school now. 



** With reference to the night-school work, some eight years ago a great 

 difficulty was found in getting pupils to form a class, in fact only five 

 pupils were obtained. It was thought that if some recreative subject 

 could be introduced it might be a means of augmenting the numbers, 

 hence the choice of nature-drawing, and in two years a class of twenty- 

 three has been obtained, and one hour's instruction each week is given, 

 for which no pay or grant of any kind is received by the teacher. 



" At the end of the session each pupil's work is exhibited, and quite 

 a large number of people, especially the parents, attend. 



"To sum up. — In order to get children to use their eyes in their daily 

 walks — 



" (i) Encourage them to gather the wild flowers and grasses and 



arrange them neatly. 

 ** (2) Get them to collect specimens of insects, birds* nests, ^^, 



&c., and give lessons on them in the school. 

 "(3) Inculcate in their minds a taste for keeping plants in their 



house windows, and creepers on the house walls. 

 " (4) Illustrate as far as possible all nature lessons in the winter 



with lantern slides." 



Chemistry and drawing lessons are the features of Ew- 

 hurst Evening-school ; here we are told : — 



"Nature-study is taught by means of experimental lectures dealing 

 with the chemistry of a plant. The scholars are encouraged (for the 

 drawing lesson) to bring specimens of leaves, flowers, sprays of foliage, 



