MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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of Geography in Grammar and High Schools." These pamphlets 

 have been published by the Board of Education of the respective 

 States, and distributed to the public schools of grammar grade. 

 Similar pamphlets will probably be published by Massachusetts 

 and New York. The following extract will indicate the intention 

 of these efforts : " Lack of experience in the use of the State Map 

 in field teaching is, for the present, a necessary result of the recent 

 completion of the map. Three, four, or five years hence, a similar 

 lack of experience will be interpreted, by those who understand 

 the advance in the teaching of geography now in progress, as the 

 result of the neglect of the opportunities for self-improvement that 

 every teacher is in duty bound to use to the utmost. Fifteen or 

 twenty years hence, it will be a reproach to the school in which 

 the younger teachers of that time began their education, if they do 

 not bring from it an acquaintance with home geography and the 

 geography of the State, such as the proper use of the State Map 

 in the grammar schools will surely develop." 



Instruction in Meteorology. 



Besides giving the lectures and conducting the laboratory work 

 of the course in Elementary Meteorology during the second half- 

 year, Mr. Ward gave much time to accumulating material in prep- 

 aration for the course on Climatology, to be offered for the first 

 time during the coining year. The course of informal lectures to 

 teachers given by Mr. Ward in Hingham a year ago was repeated 

 duriug the past winter at Braintree, North Abington, Brockton, 

 and Natick. At each place the course consisted of ten lectures, 

 the attendance being about two hundred teachers in all. As a re- 

 sult of this work, instruction in local observation and its sys- 

 tematic correlation with the practical uses of the daily weather 

 maps has been introduced to some extent in all the places above 

 mentioned. This work seems likely to grow rapidly during com- 

 ing years. A paper on u Meteorological Observations in Schools " 

 was prepared for the Connecticut State Board of Education by 

 Mr. Ward, and was published by that Board as a School Docu- 

 ment. Mr. Ward continued to act as editor of the u American 

 Meteorological Journal," to which work he devoted much of his 

 time, until the suspension of the Journal with the April number, 

 at the close of the twelfth volume ; since then he has undertaken 



