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Excerpt from Handbook of Nature Study: For Teachers and Pupils in Elementary Schools The study of nature with a View to understand the relations of plant and animal life to the welfare and happiness of inan, -needs no justification in this age of scientific agriculture and applied sciences. All our most progressive teachers agree that Elementary Science or Nature Study should have a place on the programme of every graded and ungraded school in the land. Purpose of this book. - The writer has attempted to point out some of the material which may be made the basis of profitable lessons in Nature Study, and he has endeavored to show how this material may be made available and what the pupils may be taught about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.