APPENDIX I 



NOTE-BOOKS, DRAWINGS, AND REFERENCE 



BOOKS. 



Note-books and drawings. — Each pupil should have 

 a note-book of about 8 X lo inches, opening at the end, 

 in which both drawings and notes can be made. The 

 paper should be unruled and of good quality (not too 

 soft). Each pupil should make the drawings called for 

 in connection with the study of the various animals con- 

 sidered in this book. These drawings should be in out- 

 line, and put in by pencil ; the lines may be inked over 

 if preferred. Each drawing and all the animal parts rep- 

 resented in it should be fully named. Notes should be 

 made of any observations which cannot be represented 

 in the drawings, for example, on the behavior of living 

 animals. All notes referring to matters of life-history 

 should be dated. 



Scattered through this book will be found numerous 

 suggestions for student field-work, for the observation of 

 the life-history and habits and conditions of animals in 

 nature. The initiation and direction of such work is left 

 to the teacher. But its importance, both because of its 

 instructiveness and its interest is great. Pupils should 

 not only be incited to make individual observations 

 whenever and wherever they can, but the teacher should 

 make little field-excursions with the class, or with parts of 

 it, at various times, to ponds or streams or woods, and 

 "show things" to all. The life-history and feeding- 

 habits of insects, the web-making of spiders, the flight, 



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