Nature Course

AN INFORMAL, non-credit course in Nature Recreation will be open to Dartmouth undergraduates and other interested persons next semester, under the direction of Dr. Richard Weaver, College Naturalist. Consisting of fourteen evening lectures and supplementary field trips, it is designed to give camp counsellors, teachers and parents elementary training in natural history and in how to introduce study programs in camps, schools and homes.

The course will be open to college or high school students interested in becoming camp counsellors, to students planning to teach biology or natural history, to local teachers and scout leaders, and to all other interested persons. In addition to Dr. Weaver, Dartmouth faculty members participating in the course will be Prof. James W. Goldthwait, Prof. Richard H. Goddard '20, Prof. William W. Ballard '28, Prof. W. Wedgwood Bowen, Prof. Frederick S. Page '13, Harold Rugg '06, Prof. Charles J. Lyon, Prof. Harold H. Lane '31, Prof. Robert J. Delahanty, and Prof. George L. Scott '25.

Lectures will deal with rocks and minerals, common birds, amphibia and reptiles of New England, common insects, preparation of a nature museum, common trees, the making and operation of a nature trail, photography for teaching purposes, common stars and planets, local ferns, conservation, common wild flowers, and techniques of nature-study teaching. Certificates will be awarded to those who complete the work of the course.