Handbook of Nature Study

Description

The late Anna Botsford Comstock was the founder and first head of the Department of Nature Study at Cornell University and the first woman to be appointed to the Cornell faculty.

Anna Botsford Comstock pioneered teaching students about nature in the outdoors, and not on the classroom. This book was originally written in 1911 for elementary school teachers, but today it wonderful for introducing children and adults to the appreciation of to nature as experienced in everyday life.