NATURE STUDY WORK OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

 The lectures and demonstrations on the nature study of plant 

 commenced last year for the public schools, and taken up agai 

 this spring, were continued and much expanded during the au 

 tumn. In addition to children from the schools in the Bronx th 

 privilege was given to schools from Manhattan, children attend 

 ing from both the 4B and the 5B grades from schools of botl 

 boroughs. The courses commenced on October 5 and were com 

 pleted on November 23, the afternoons of four days of each wee] 

 being devoted to this work. The general system of instructioi 

 previously followed was continued with very slight modification 

 but with considerably greater efficiency, due to practice and t< 

 more intimate knowledge of the needs. A synopsis of the lecture 

 and demonstrations is as follows : 



Grade 4B. 



Lecture I. — " Cultivation of Plants," by Mr. George V. Nash 

 Followed by demonstration : walk from museum building to am 

 around herbaceous grounds ; thence to greenhouses, and througl 

 greenhouses to railway station. Observe seedlings, cuttings 

 roots, stems and leaves, evergreen and deciduous trees, shrub 

 and herbaceous plants. 



Lecture //. — "Seedless Plants," by Dr. Marshall A. Howe 

 Followed by demonstration : walk through museum building t< 

 second floor, around cases exhibiting seaweeds and mushrooms 

 thence to hemlock forest to observe lichens and mosses ; theno 

 to greenhouses to observe ferns ; thence to station. 



Grade 5B. 



Lecture I. — " Industries Depending on Forests ; Plant Prod 



ucts," by Dr. Henry H. Rusby. Followed by demonstration 



walk through museum halls to observe plant products ; theno 



through hemlock forest,.past herbaceous grounds, to greenhouses 



thence to station. 

 Lecture II.- 



