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the bay of San Francisco empties into the Pacific 

 Ocean. This route was over American territory. 



On the following day Professor Bickmore took his 

 audience with him along the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 from Montreal, over the Selkirk Mountains to Van- 

 couver. Next they visited the Hawaiian Islands, where 

 they saw the marvellous volcanoes with the grandest 

 craters in the world, and an eruption of the great 

 mountain, Mauna Loa, in which the light of the fluid 

 rock actually produced the negative from which the 

 slide displayed was made.* 



NATURE-STUDY IN RELATION TO 

 RURAL PURSUITS 



By Mr. G. H. MORRELL, M.P. 



I have been invited to address you on one of the 

 most comprehensive of all the items put down for 

 the consideration of this conference — " Nature-study 

 in relation to rural pursuits", suggestive of an attempt 

 on my part to analyse one's country experiences, and 

 set out the details in terms of Nature's laws; and that 

 in five or ten minutes. 



* In recognition of the facilities offered to his photographic assistants by 

 the authorities of the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Museum 

 of Natural History, and other institutions in England, Professor Bickmore 

 has presented to the London County Council a duplicate series of the slides 

 used by him in New York for one of his lectures on London. These may 

 be borrowed by educators throughout the country, on condition that they 

 employ them for the purpose of giving free instruction to the pupils and the 

 public generally. 



