VI FOREWORD 



Thanks are due the editors for much kindness and 

 courtesy. 



The writer gratefully acknowledges permission 

 from the author and the publisher, to reprint, 

 from the report of General Z. T. Sweeney, Fish 

 and Game Commissioner of Indiana, the valuable 

 paper, " How to Introduce Nature Study," by 

 Professor H. A. Surface, Supervisor of Nature 

 Study in Pennsylvania. 



To Professor J. P. Gordy, Ph.D., LL.D., Pro- 

 fessor of Pedagogy of the New York University, 

 the writer thankfully acknowledges his obligation 

 for the favor that Dr. Gordy shows him and the 

 reader, by allowing the publication here of the 

 suggestive, helpful and inspiring Introduction. 



Where our Mother Nature lives, there is our 

 Duke Domum. The children of her home are 

 the little brothers of ours. Among all the teach- 

 ers she is the greatest, and she is ours. What she 

 tells us, " children of a larger growth," shall we 

 not tell ours, of fewer years and more impression- 

 able minds, who cluster about us in the school- 

 room, and in our own particular Dulce Domum ? 

 To help the reader in this, is the purpose of this 

 book. 



