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VISUAL EDUCATION
it; and to secure all the specimens for a complete family of sparrows or blackbirds may often take three or four years.
"In developing plans for new exhibits the department is guided to a large extent by the counsel of the superintendent of schools, Peter A. Morten son, and of Dudley Grant Hays, assistant superintendent and director of visual education, who is personally in charge of the museum extension. Both are deeply interested in the work of the N. W. Harris Public School Extension and are lending all the assistance possible to increase its helpfulness and efficiency/'
LOCAL NATURE OF EXHIBITS
"Our aim in the school museum,"
ORIGIN OF COAL
Another example of the economic cases, this time from the Geology group. The labels beneath the small containers read: "Peat— a fuel formed by the decomposition of moss; Lignite — younger than ordinary soft coal; Bituminous coal — soft coal; Anthracite coal — hard coal; Modern and fossil 'horse-tails'; Fossil fern leaves — formed in the rock overlying the coal; Bark impressions found in coal — showing leaf-scales of one of the ancestors of the Club Moss; Root of fossil tree found in coal — this tree was similar,, except in size, to the Club Moss; Club Moss — a modern representative of the Lycopods, the family to which many of the coalforming trees belonged."
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comments Dr. Simms, "is to show only the commonest things to be seen in Chicago and Cook county — to bring knowledge home to the child in its very simplest terms, and to connect that knowledge with his own experience. For that reason we are choosing such things as he is likely to see and wonder about as he goes to and from school — in field, lane, park, river, lake or pond — or such manufactured articles as are of daily use or observation in his world.
"We want him to know first of all the natural history of his own neighborhood. We do not believe., in this department at least, in going to the Andes, the Himalayas or the Sahara Desert for plants, birds, butterflies and other things that an American child stands little chance of seeing as long as he lives. If he really understands it, the life of the plant or animal that belongs to his own environment will teach him a thousand times more natural history than any amount of reading about the plants and animals of jungle, mountain or desert. "The whole emphasis in this collection is placed on giving a complete picture of the object shown, in place of the helter-skelter aggregation of facts which is so common in work of this sort. The exhibit on a local bird, for instance, will show its nest and eggs, its habits, its young, and a specimen of both