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    the mode of teaching number which was pursued in this case , to Dr . Biber ' s ' Life of Pestalozzi . It would be tedious , and indeed almost impossible , to detail all the means which were taken to clear up this puzzled head . Whatever he saw or felt was the material to which alone his observation was directed . He made a book containing a list of the flowers in bloom in each month ,, and drawings of some of them . His account of January is as follows :

    ' In flower—primroses , wall-flowers , stocks , laurustinas ; mosses very beautiful . We walked on the frozen pond . The birds used to be fed by the window . Most trees are without leaves . ' * February . In flower—snowdrops , hepaticas , daisies , primroses , wall-flowers , violets , periwinkles ., crocuses , furze . The birds sing sweetly—thrushes , robins , yellowhammers , larks , and blackbirds . '

    This lesson should be carried on through every year ,, growing more and more full , until from the bare list that the above is , it mig ht become connected with and made ^ the ground- work of botany , or medicine , or poetry , or drawing . His observation was excited by such questions as the following , and we will select a few of the answers to them :

    ' What do you see in this room V c tables , six chairs , a carpet , a rug , a mattress , four bookshelves , two doors , one window , some curious stones , a wine g lass full of flowers , four desks , many books , an inkstand , a portfolio , (plaster casts , &c , Sec . What can you do with your mouth V 'Bite , sing , talk , chatter , laugh , speak , whistle . '

    The above was one of a series of questions on the functions oi the body , an exercise which should follow that upon structure . Sometimes he was told to describe an object ; for instance , a slate . ' It has red leather round it , throe lines at each corner , a pencil case , a wooden frame . ' In this way he was taught botany , —l > y describing minutely what he saw ; and to everything that he did , drawing was as much as possible added . < What is flat ?'

    ' My hand is flat ; my book is flat ; my rule is flat ; the floor is flat ; the glass is flat ; the table is'flat ; the ceiling is flat . ' When he was sufficiently awakened and regulated to dorivo benefit from the use of the knowledge of others , which is to bo found in . books , S . suffered him to leave the world of observation for awhile , and gave him questions , the answers to which he could partly answer , but for their complete solution he was obliged to refer to books . The uses of animals to man , wnr what he began with , and we subjoin some specimens ;

    ' Dogs give nkin to lino things ; they watch the house and thr sheep ; they load the blind ; they hunt ; they point . In China the people oat them . They draw little carts and sledgos . '

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    862 Memoranda of Observations

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 862, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/44/