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nature-study museum in the St. George’s Churchyard 
Garden. What formerly was the mortuary has been 
turned to good account, and hundreds of children in the 
borough benefit by Miss Hall’s instruction. Aquaria both 
for fresh-water fish and shells, and salt-water collections, 
with a lobster, starfish, sea anemones, and growing sea 
weeds are to be seen, and moths, butterflies, dragon-flies, 
pass through all their stages, while toads, frogs, and 
salamanders and such-like are a great delight. The 
hedgehog spends his summer in the garden, and 
hibernates comfortably in the museum. The bees at 
work in the glass hive are another source of instruc¬ 
tion. Outside the museum a special plot is tended by 
the pupils, who are allowed in turn to work, dig, and 
prune, and who obtain, under the eye of their sym¬ 
pathetic teacher, most creditable results. The charm of 
this East End garden, and the special educational uses it 
has been put to, shows what can be achieved, and sets a 
good example to others, where similar opportunities exist. 
A less promising neighbourhood for gardening could 
hardly be imagined, which surely shows that no one need 
be disheartened. 
Some of the burial-grounds were in such a shocking 
state before they were taken in hand, that very few of 
the head-stones remained in their right places, and many 
had gone altogether, while some even reappeared as pav¬ 
ing-stones in the district. Spa Fields, Clerkenwell, had a 
very chequered history. The site was first a tea garden, 
near the famous Sadler’s Wells. For a few years, from 
1770, its “little Pantheon” and pretty garden, with a 
pond or “ canal ” stocked with fish, and alcoves for tea 
drinkers, was thronged by the middle class, small trades¬ 
men, and apprentices, while the more fashionable world 
