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THE Nature-study Exhibition held last year served the purpose of bringing together the work due to the efforts of independent individuals or institutions, and thereby enabled teachers to get a correct estimate of their results and obtain suggestions for future developments. The official report directs attention to the more successful results both in the list of awards and also in a too brief reference to work of special excellence. The report of the executive committee embodies extracts from the information supplied by principals with regard to their aims and ideals, from which useful hints may be gathered. It would have been convenient if this information had been arranged under subjects of study, or according to the phase of the subject. The addresses presented at the conferences occupy the greater part of the book. The paper offered by Prof. Lloyd Morgan is eminently practical and broad in scope. Prof. J. A. Thomson confined himself to advocating the seasonal method of nature-study, which offers a definite scheme of work. Herein lies an important point, which has not been sufficiently emphasised, that observation of objects taken at random does not train the mind, and that with correct observation should be combined a systematic course of study.
Official Report of the Nature Study Exhibition and Conferences, August, 1902.
Pp. 303. (London: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1903.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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Official Report of the Nature Study Exhibition and Conferences, August, 1902. Nature 67, 534 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067534c0
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