HANDBOOK OF NATURE-STUDY
Reading edition
For Teachers and Parents
Based on the Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets, with Much Additional Material and Many New Illustrations.
By ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, B.S. Assistant Professor in Nature-Study in Cornell University; Author of How to Keep Bees, and Ways of the Six-Footed; Illustrator and Engraver for Manual for the Study of Insects and for Insect Life
SIXTH EDITION ITHACA, N. Y. COMSTOCK PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1911 BY ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK
TO LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY UNDER WHOSE WISE, STAUNCH AND INSPIRING LEADERSHIP THE NATURE-STUDY WORK AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED AND TO MY CO-WORKER JOHN WALTON SPENCER WHOSE COURAGE, RESOURCEFULNESS AND UNTIRING ZEAL WERE POTENT FACTORS IN THE SUCCESS OF THE CAUSE THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED