Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904

PART I. TEACHERS' LEAFLETS.

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Leaflet. Page.

The Schoolhouse 9 L. H. Bailey.

I. What is Nature-Study? 11 L. H. Bailey.

II. The Nature-Study Movement 21 L. H. Bailey.

III. An Appeal to the Teachers of New York State 31 L. H. Bailey.

IV. What Is Agricultural Education? 45 L. H. Bailey.

V. Suggestions for Nature Study Work 55 Anna Botsford Comstock.

VI. A Summer Shower 81 Ralph S. Tarr.

VII. A Snow Storm 93 Anna Botsford Comstock.

VIII. A Handful of Soil: What It Is 99 Ralph S. Tarr.

IX. A Handful of Soil: What It Does 115 L. A. Clinton.

X. The Brook 125 J. O. Martin. Introduction by L. H. Bailey.

XI. Insect Life of a Brook 135 Mary Rogers Miller.

XII. Life in an Aquarium 141 Mary Rogers Miller.

XIII. A Study of Fishes 157 H. D. Reed.

XIV. The Opening of a Cocoon 167 Mary Rogers Miller.

XV. A Talk about Spiders 171 John Henry Comstock.

XVI. Life History of the Toad 185 Simon Henry Gage.

XVII. Life in a Terrarium 207 Alice I. Kent.

XVIII. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 213 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XIX. Some Tent-Makers 227 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XX. Mosquitoes 237 Mary Rogers Miller.

XXI. The Ways of the Ant 243 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XXII. The Birds and I 253 L. H. Bailey.

XXIII. The Early Birds 261 Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

XXIV. The Woodpeckers 269 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XXV. The Chickadee 279 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XXVI. The White-Breasted Nuthatch 283 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XXVII. About Crows 287 Mary Rogers Miller.

XXVIII. How a Squash Plant Gets Out of the Seed 291 L. H. Bailey.

XXIX. How the Trees Look in Winter 297 L. H. Bailey.

XXX. One Way of Drawing Trees in Their Winter Aspects 307 Charles W. Furlong.

XXXI. Four Apple Twigs 317 L. H. Bailey.

XXXII. The Burst of Spring 327 L. H. Bailey.

XXXIII. Evergreens and How They Shed Their Leaves 333 H. P. Gould.

XXXIV. The Clovers and Their Kin 349 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XXXV. How Plants Live Together 361 L. H. Bailey.

XXXVI. Planting a Plant 367 L. H. Bailey.

XXXVII. Cuttings and Cuttings 369 L. H. Bailey.

XXXVIII. A Children's Garden 379 L. H. Bailey.

XXXIX. A Hill of Potatoes 385 I. P. Roberts.

XL. The Hepatica 391 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XLI. Jack-in-the-Pulpit 395 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XLII. Indian Corn 397 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XLIII. The Ripened Corn 401 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XLIV. The Uses of Food Stored in Seeds 409 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XLV. The Life History of a Beet 415 Mary Rogers Miller.

XLVI. Pruning 417 Mary Rogers Miller.

XLVII. Study of a Tree 423 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XLVIII. The Maple in February 431 Anna Botsford Comstock.

XLIX. The Red Squirrel or Chickaree 435 Anna Botsford Comstock.

L. Improvement of School Grounds 437 John W. Spencer.