Oh my, this goes creepily well with the one with the kidnapping botanist.
Love the image, it seems a lot different than originally intended. Binders full of women, indeed.
Yes, this one is terribly creepy, but so are all those old books full of pressed flowers that used to be so popular.
Ice Swimmersays
Definitely creepy, especially the face in this context.
I don’t know how this was in the rest of the world, but in Finland from 1916 -- 69, kids who were students in the grammar schools* had to collect a dried and pressed herbarium with a set number of plant species and following other specifications during two summer holidays (I think roughly when most kids would have been about 15).
Neither of my parents did this because they didn’t go to a grammar school, just to the free kansakoulu (people’s school), which was after the first four years only for people who aimed at working-class jobs.
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* = Oppikoulu, which wasn’t free, but was the only way to university education. Thankfully, the school reform in the 1970s replaced oppikoulu and kansakoulu with comprehensive school for the classes 1-9 (for kids 7-15 years old), common for everybody.
I don’t know how this was in the rest of the world, but in Finland from 1916 — 69, kids who were students in the grammar schools* had to collect a dried and pressed herbarium with a set number of plant species and following other specifications during two summer holidays
That was common in my grandmother and great-grandmother’s school days.
Ice Swimmersays
Caine @ 4
It isn’t a great surprise, that it’s been done elsewhere, but school kids having a task to collect a herbarium (200 species at first, later cut down to 70 here) is a thing I’ve never heard anything about from other parts of the world and it’s only now that I realized I didn’t know.
Oh my, this goes creepily well with the one with the kidnapping botanist.
Love the image, it seems a lot different than originally intended. Binders full of women, indeed.
Yes, this one is terribly creepy, but so are all those old books full of pressed flowers that used to be so popular.
Definitely creepy, especially the face in this context.
I don’t know how this was in the rest of the world, but in Finland from 1916 -- 69, kids who were students in the grammar schools* had to collect a dried and pressed herbarium with a set number of plant species and following other specifications during two summer holidays (I think roughly when most kids would have been about 15).
Neither of my parents did this because they didn’t go to a grammar school, just to the free kansakoulu (people’s school), which was after the first four years only for people who aimed at working-class jobs.
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* = Oppikoulu, which wasn’t free, but was the only way to university education. Thankfully, the school reform in the 1970s replaced oppikoulu and kansakoulu with comprehensive school for the classes 1-9 (for kids 7-15 years old), common for everybody.
Ice Swimmer:
That was common in my grandmother and great-grandmother’s school days.
Caine @ 4
It isn’t a great surprise, that it’s been done elsewhere, but school kids having a task to collect a herbarium (200 species at first, later cut down to 70 here) is a thing I’ve never heard anything about from other parts of the world and it’s only now that I realized I didn’t know.
I had to collect a herbarium of 200 species of dessicated plants during my studies at the uni. I still have it.