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THE NATURALISTS 7 JOURNAL. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
{ The Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents) 
Natural History in Board Schools.* 
Perhaps you will allow me through the medium of your 
columns to make known a practical want for which the Natural- 
ists’ trade apparently makes little or no provision in this 
country. I have an official connection with a large number o c 
schools, and my duties lead me to encourage the keeping and 
examination of natural objects of a common kind. But if I 
ask naturalists to supply me, for example, with stuffed specimens 
of the common house spar?mw ) cock and hen, there is no such 
thing to be got, whereas Birds of Paradise or any foreign bird 
can be had for money. I have frequently tried to get preserved 
specimens of the common English honey-bee —worker, drone, and 
queen—but at last I gave up in despair, when every naturalist 
offered me any number of exotic species, instead of the kind I 
could use in an elementary school. In Germany you would 
find that a whole trade exists by the accurate study of teachers" 
wants in this respect, and it seems to me that if some 
“ practical ” naturalists were to lay themselves out to know the 
conditions of the schoolroom and class teaching, and would 
procure specimens of common birds and insects, and arrange 
them in such a way that they might be passed from hand to 
hand without injury to the specimens, they might increase the 
demand for which there is at present no adequate supply. 
M. J. Lyschinska. 
Superintendent of Kindergarten Method 
tinder the London School Board. 
Zonaria at Wallasey. 
On Good Friday I went to the old collecting ground to see 
if I could find a few Zonaria. I had not been there for a few 
years, they having got so scarce, but at the request of a young 
man who wanted to go and see the ground and how to find 
them, I consented to go with him. It was a grand day for the 
purpose and I soon found one specimen, which gave hopes for 
more and in this we were not disappointed. It required patience 
and strict searching as my young friend found before he had 
any success. I picked up twenty-six males and four females, 
which latter have laid me a number of eggs, and we saw and 
left many more females. We left the sandhills well pleased 
with our outing and success. 
243, Hailiwell Road , Bolton. James Grime. 
Argynnis euphrosyne. 
On Wednesday afternoon, April 26th, I sallied forth to a 
copse two miles from here on a larva-hunting expedition. I 
* See Notes and News. 
