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SINCE the attempt was made a year or two ago to introduce into our rural elementary schools the subject called “nature-study,” really such a general introduction to the science of living things as will give the pupil a means of taking an interest in his environment, there has been a great lack of adequate books for the teacher. Several men, Dr. Armstrong, Prof. Miall, and Prof. Lloyd Morgan, for instance, have spoken about the spirit in which the work should be undertaken, nor are there wanting books which indicate the method to be followed, that of experiment and observation. But the ordinary teacher without any particular training in the subject has wanted more systematic guidance, his previous training has been in the wrong direction, and the many text-books that have been hurried on to the market have only tended to confirm his probable original error that nature-study consisted in reading about natural objects or anything bearing on country life.
An Introduction to Nature Study.
By E. Stenhouse. Pp. x + 422. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1903.) Price 3s. 6d.
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H., A. An Introduction to Nature Study . Nature 68, 546 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068546a0
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