FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2672, 31 May 1905, Page 79

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

(Conducted by Magister, to whom nil I Communications must be addressed.] 1 SCHOOL RECORDS IN NATURESTUDY. 1 A fortnight ago I stated that I would bo , willing to help teachers and pupils to ex- ; change Nature-study notes, and I am glad i to say that several teachers have agreed to i send in weekly or monthly reports —l think ; they had .tetter be weekly. The following j schools will inaugurate the moyement: — \ Tapanui, Temuka, J^owburn; and Anderson's '■ Say. Will it be -possible to get the teacher ] or someone else on Stewart .Island to help?. | ' Then if ye could get records from, say, ' , "Wanaka, ' Mount Cook region, Hokitika, j . Taupe, Napier, New Plymouth, and as near I . as ..possible to Cape Maria van Diemen, 1 ( think we should get along pretty" well. -| Next week I'll try to' give details as to ] thermometers, barometers, and rain-gauges. ; Jn'the- meantime, temperatures at 9 a.m., i 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. could be taken, and, if possible, daily maximum and minimum. Of 1 course, atmospheric phenomena are not to 1 be Jhe sole "study of observation. The ; earliness or lateness of -seasons in* one locality as compared with others in different : latitudes —or, indeed, in the same latitude ' but with different physical conditions —will come -under observation too. But we «hall gradually -feel our way. Teachers in the .schools mentioned have -»greed' to- become responsible for records as far as "they have Apparatus to work witb.^ but Mr Murray, of South Dunedin, who is not a, teacher, and -who 4»as had considerable «xperienoe-in noting climatic changes, has kindly offered to iielp also. ! ; ■ ■ ■ „ ' ■ ; ' ■ ■ ; ■ ( • . : < ■. , ] j ■ , : ; ; , ; '• ; : ; ( . j ] , < j 1 i