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THE natural history collections in the Whitechapel Public Library and Museum are being systematically used by many teachers in the elementary schools of the district to illustrate object lessons. Teachers who propose to utilise the collections for this purpose send to the curator, Miss Kate M. Hall, a list of the object lessons they are giving, and arrangements are then made for one or more practical demonstrations bearing upon the lessons. The children (about forty-five in number) are brought up to the museum every week, for 1 to 1½ hours, until the course is finished. They are divided into three groups of fifteen, and each group spends about twenty minutes at each table on which the specimens chosen for the lesson have been placed. In this way the children have the opportunity of closely observing the objects, and of comparing the structure with that of other animals or plants. By this means the Library Commissioners are making the collection of real service in elementary education.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 60, 382–383 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060382a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060382a0