Abstract
THE author of this little volume is convinced that the only true method of nature-study is by making children thoroughly acquainted with living animals and their ways, both in the wild state and in confinement. He will have nothing to do with technicalities as to their structure and classification, leaving these, if they are ever to be taught at all, for older pupils. The keeping of tame animals as pets, and the history of domesticated animals, so far as known, are regarded as important factors in the scheme. A similar mode of study is pursued in the case of plants, where the pupil is not bothered with a long string of technical names or wearied with details as to their structure. Their life and their relations to inanimate surroundings are the only things it is sought to teach. The author's mode of procedure is to induce the members of the class to write down the names of all the animals—both wild and domesticated—with which they are acquainted, to classify them roughly, and then to discuss some of the more important types at length.
Nature Study and Life.
By C. F. Hodge. Pp. xv + 514; illustrated. (Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Co., 1902.) Price 7s.
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L., R. Nature Study and Life . Nature 66, 245 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066245b0
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