Excerpt from The Nature-Study Review, Vol. 3First, because most important, we have reached agreement in answer to the question, Wild! Nature-sludy For years and years this has been the center of all disagreements; but in carefully reviewing all the literature, and especially the best practice of the past two or three years, I fail to find even the shadow of disagree ment concerning the working definition of nature-study. Interpret ing in my own words what I see in all the present tendencies of nature-study as an educational movement, I must define nature study as follows: Nature-study is primarily the simple observational study of common natural objects and processes for the sake of per sonal acquaintance With the things which appeal to human interest directly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.