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diseases of animals — another subject which forms part 

 of the administrative work of the County Councils, 

 and on which many fallacious notions prevail. The 

 protection of trees and garden plants from injurious 

 insects, the effects of different soils and manures on 

 the various grasses, the habits of bees, poultry, and 

 domesticated animals may be also mentioned as 

 practical forms of "Nature-study" teaching which 

 should commend themselves to farmers, gardeners, 

 and students alike, and might well be included in the 

 field of work of every County Council. 



THE FACILITIES FOR NATURE-STUDY 



By Professor GEDDES, University College, Dundee 



The plan and scope of this exhibition, the range of 

 these conferences, are in themselves sufficient evidence 

 that Nature-study is not, as some have thought, a 

 "new subject", to be squeezed into already over- 

 crowded programmes. It is a notable symptom, a 

 potent leaven also, of that thorough-going transfor- 

 mation of our codes and programmes which is now 

 happily in increasing progress. 



It is plainly a part of the current educational 

 revolution, which some define as from static to 

 kinetic, others from analytic to synthetic, others 

 from formal to vital. It is the coming in of a new 

 movement in science-teaching; one no less important 

 than the chemical and physical one of a generation 

 ago, with its laboratories, or than the more recent 

 technical one with its workshops; one not competing 



