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in respect to the equipment of teachers and the plane upon which 
instruction should be placed are high. In botany a “synthetic 
course" is advocated, wherein insistence is laid upon the correla- 
tion of morphology and physiology (with ecology), and a dynamic 
point of view is taken and carried out. As outlined in detail, with 
many practical helps, by Professor Lloyd, this course agrees well 
with the recommendations of the committee appointed by the Society 
for Plant Morphology and Physiology to formulate a uniform col- 
lege entrance requirement in botany. Schoolmen may well read Dr. 
Bigelow’s arguments in favor of a year’s course in biology the botan- 
ical and zoological elements of which would be so adjusted that the 
important general principles of life might be taught to the exclusion 
of a mass of relatively uninstructive details. — R. G. L. 
Vol. 7, no. 81, including pages 157 to 172, was issued 19 September, 1905. 
