3 tEbe flIMamt Bulletin Series IX JANUARY, 1911 Number 6 EQUIPMENT IN . . AGRICULTURE, NATURE STUDY, and OHIO STATE NORMAL COLLEGE MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY MIAMI UNIVERSITY And entered at Postoffice, Oxford, Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter This Bulletin is issued in order to acquaint practice teachers in the William Me Guffey schools with materials available for use in the teaching of Nature Study, Elementary Agriculture, and Geography. In addition, information is given concerning certain collections that will be loaned to public schools upon application, provided all transportation charges are paid by the school to which the collection is sent. Following each item is the letter “A”-“E”-or “G.” “A” indicates that the material is in the Department of Agricultural Education, in charge of Dr. Davis, “E” that it is in charge of Professor Heckert, in the Department of Education, and “G” that it is the Department of Geography in charge of Professor Hoke. Inquiries concerning loan collections should be sent to the Teachers Aid Bureau, Ohio State Normal College, Miami University Oxford Ohio. Globes One eighteen inch Jones relief model of the earth. G Two eighteen inch Nystrom swinging map globes. G and E One eighteen inch slate globe. G Five twelve inch map globes. G One twelve inch map globe with time chart. G Six twelve inch slate globes. G One system of globes suspended from ceiling to illustrate relations of earth, sun, and moon. G Models One set Howell’s relief models of the continents. North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia. G One Howell relief model of the United States, a section of a globe sixteen feet in diameter. G One Howell relief model of the Henry Mountains, colored geologically. G One Howell stereogram model of the Henry Mountains. G One Howell relief model of the Chattanooga district, colored geologically. G One Howell relief model of New York State. G One set of three Harvard relief models. G One Keeler relief model to illustrate contours. G 2 One dissectable manikin. Models of eye, ear, and chest. Maps One set of Stanford’s orographical wall maps of the continents, edited by Mackinder. North . America, South America, Europe, Africa, Australasia. One set Rand-McNally physical maps of the continents. North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa. One Rand-McNally physical map of the United States. The Oxford Wall maps, edited by Herbertson. Asia, one rainfall map. Africa, one rainfall and one vegetation map. South America, one rainfall and one vegetation map. One set Rand-McNally political maps. North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, United States, State of Ohio. One Rand-McNally map of the world, Mercator projection. Two sets Sydow-Habenicht physical maps of states of Europe, including British Isles, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Balkan Peninsula, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Scandanavia. G & One set Phillips relievo-test maps of states of Europe, in- cluding British Isles, France, Spain, Italy, Balkan Peninsula, Austria-Hungary, Switerland, Germany, Russia, Scandanavia. One Kummerley contoured map of Switzerland. One Noordhoff wall map of the Rhine. One Gaebler map of Athens and environs. One Holzel map of Oceanica, Mollwiede projection. One Geological map of the British Isles. One set Vidal-Eablache maps of France; Rivers, Canals, Railways, Cities, Industries, Agriculture and Colo- nies of Tunis and Algeria. One copy of each without names. One copy of each with names. Two Spruner-Bretschner historical wall maps; Europe at the time of Charlemagne, and the Roman Empire. E 3 OW OQOQO Q W QQ Q OOW >> Two Kiepert wall maps of ancient history. Ancient Greece. Ancient Gaul and Germany. K An almost complete set of the U. S. G. S. contour maps of the United States with numerous duplicates for class use. G An almost complete set of the U. S. G. S. geological folios with many duplicates. G A large collection of hand maps of China, Japan, India, Persia, the Philippines, West Indies, etc. G Atlases Stieler — Hand-atlas. Berghaus — Physical atlas. Andree — Hand-atlas. Debbes — Hand-atlas. Bartholomew— Atlas of the World’s Commerce. Rand-McNally — Atlas of the World — two vols. Spruner — Historical atlas. Sydow — School atlas. Charts Fourteen charts showing composition, function and use of foods. A Many charts, graphs, and diagrams have been prepared for teaching purposes to illustrate physical features, climate, and industries. These are too numerous to catalogue in detail and teachers desiring such material must consult the cases containing them. G Natural History Collections. Insects One demonstration case of economic insects. A Fifty life-history collections of common insects mounted in glass cases. A Beetles — the Siewer collection of more than four thousand specimens. A Weeds — a nearly complete collection of the seeds of local weeds A Birds — something more than a hunderd mounted speci- ments of local birds. A 4 oooooooo Minerals and Rocks. Eight sets Washington School Collection, each set constsiting of forty minerals and forty rocks, with numerous duplicate fragments. G A large collection of minerals, rocks, and fossils en- tirely too large to catalogue in detail, available for demonstration and study. G Apparatus. Bacteriology — a complete equipment, including Auto- clave, Arnold sterilizer, two incubators, compound microscopes, etc. A Study of soil — a complete equipment, including Hil- gard’s elutriator, soil cylinders, samplers, perco- lators, balances, etc. A Note — a green house with modern appointments is connected with the soil laboratory. One Babcock milk tester. A Plant Study — abundant material and apparatus for con- duction of experiments in plant physiology, plant propogation, examining and grading of grains, etc. Note — this equipment includes ten acres of ground for plot experiments and school gardens, with tool house and forty sets of gardening tools. A Green standard U. S. Weather Bureau pattern meteo- rological instruments as follows: Barometer Exposed thermometer Maximum and minimum thermometers Wet and dry bulb thermometers Rain guage Annemometer One Draper self recording thermometer One Goode Sun Board One Morse Heliodon Twelve seasonal twilight charts One 3a Graflex with Zeiss anastigmat and telephoto lens One 8x10 enlarging and reducing lantern slide camera One College Bench projection lantern with microscope attachment, and long and short focus lenses G Two drawing tables with instruments, and one large table for map mounting. G 5 ooooo