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NATURE-STUDY

For Teachers and Parents

Based on the Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets, with Much
Additional Material and Many New Illustrations

By ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, B. S.

Assistant Professor in Nature-Study in Cornell University; Author of How to Keep Bees,
and Ways of the Six-Footed; Illustrator and Engraver for Manual for the
Study of Insects and for Insect Life

CARNEGIE UR

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
ALIENS, GA.

TENTH EDITION

ITHACA, N. Y.

COMSTOCK PUBLISHING COMPANY

1920

9302

TO

LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY

UNDER WHOSE WISE, STAUNCH AND INSPIRING LEADERSHIP THE
NATURE-STUDY WORK AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED

AND TO MY CO-WORKER

JOHN WALTON SPENCER

WHOSE COURAGE, RESOURCEFULNESS AND UNTIRING ZEAL

WERE POTENT FACTORS IN THE SUCCESS

OF THE CAUSE

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED