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Show Chamberlin: Naural History Teaching in Utah 133 of Plants;" "The Food of Plants;" "Plants, the Lungs of Cities;" Flowers;" "Leaf Arrangement;" "Vegetable Reproduction. "Dispersion of Seeds." The text is lightened in the usual manner such poems as Longfellow's "Flowers, the Stars of Earth" -- by and other quoted material. Part IV of the reader embraces various selections and is appropriately' entitled "Miscellaneous." Part V is devoted to the "First Division of Natural Philosophy" or Physics; and Part VII to "Sketches from Sacred History." Part II of the fifth reader is devoted to "Herpetology, or the Natural History of Reptiles" and Part III to the "Second Division of Human Physiology and Health," Part IV considers the "Second Division of Botany," in which plants are considered in their' systematic groupings. Under the heading "First Divi sion of the Vegetable Kingdom: Exogens" are such chapter or lesson titles as "The Rose Family," "Our Common Fruits," "Ca mellia, Mallow and Citron Families," "The Cactus Family," "Leguminous and Ul!!,_belliferous Plants," "Labiate and Trumpet flower Families," "Forest Trees," "The Oak Family," "The Elm, Willow and. Birch Families," etc. Part V of the book con slders "Ichthyology, or the Natural History of Fishes" which are treated in fourteen lessons, the first two of general scope and the. others taking up fish systematically under general cap tions: "First Class: Spine Rayed Bony Fishes;" "Second Class: Sol£ Rayed Bony Fishes:" and "Third Class: Cartilaginous Fishes." Other parts devoted to: science were Part VII, pre senting the "Second Division of Natural Philosophy," Part VlIIr I presenting the "First Division of Physical Geography," Part the "First Division of Chemistry," and Part X, the "First Divi sion of Gology." These first divisions were followed by se cond divisions in the Sixth Reader, in which also Astronomy and Mineralogy were treated. In the biological field Entomology ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... was 'presented. * Some of the class room accessories for his teaching have been mentioned; but his teaching of natural science was never restricted to that room. As John Q. Cannon, another student of the school writes "In his instruction the teacher by no means confined himself to the texts in the books or study in the school He was the parent of 'nature study' in this whole regfon. room. It was his want to take the entire school On summer afternoon or Saturday trips into the adjacent canyons, imparting on these occasions practical knowledge in botany, .and making study tat subjects were. taken up in. different order in the series as issued by Harper Brothers, and -that issued by, Lippincott, book six of the latter, for example, beinq devoted entirely to English Literature. "These |
