THE EXHIBITION

Introduction
Biography
Botany
Horticulture
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University

Nature Study

Veitch Memorial Silver Medal

The Nature Study Idea

Home Nature Study Course

Cornell Rural School Leaflet

Junior Naturalist Monthly

Rural School Wood Mount

Junior Extension Group

Nature Society Gavel and Scroll

First Yearbook

Comstock Wood Engraving

Handbook of Nature Study

Syllabus of Lectures
Education of Women
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium
Photography
Writings
Travel

NATURE STUDY AND RURAL EDUCATION

In 1903 Anna Botsford Comstock took over the home nature-study correspondence course originated by Bailey, preparing monthly teachers’ leaflets—over 880 pages during the next seven years. These materials formed the basis for her most famous work, the 930-page Handbook of Nature Study, first published in 1911. The Handbook of Nature Study has gone through 25 editions, been translated into 8 languages, and is still in print.

Anna Botsford Comstock. Handbook of Nature-Study for Teachers and Parents, based on the Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets, with much additional material and many new illustrations. Ithaca: Comstock Publishing Company, 1911.

Mann Library Collection

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