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To Make This Beautiful Theory Practical - Kevin C Armitage. The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. viii + 291 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1673-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2011

Scott J. Peters*
Affiliation:
Cornell University

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2011

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References

1 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, “Some Facts and Fancies, Old or New, in Horticulture,” Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 1899 (Hartford, 1900), 5456Google Scholar.

2 For another recent study of the movement, Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory, Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890–1930 (Chicago, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.