80 The Ottawa Naturalist. [July 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Text Book of Elementary Zoology for Secondary 

 Educational Institutions, by Thomas Walton Galloway, Ph.D., 

 Professor of Biology in the James Millikin University, Decatur, 

 Illinois, with 160 illustrations: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son 

 & Co., price $1.25 net. 



This new text book of xi + 418 pages should have a wide 

 sale not only among teachers, for whom it will be of special value, 

 but other persons interested in elementary zoologv. It is of a 

 verv convenient size, 5^ x 8 inches, the matter has been well 

 prepared, the illustrations and printing are excellent, and the 

 price brings it within the reach of all. The writer states that the 

 "book is an effort to combine the older and the newer phases of 

 thought among us, and is offered as a partial, and yet a distinct, 

 step toward what the author believes to be a sound pedagogical 

 and humanistic movement. He believes that the secondary 

 school biology of the future will be primarily concerned about 

 our life interests; but he believes that the great evolutionary 

 conception, which can only be had by some study of the ecology, 

 morphologv and ph3'siology of the animal phyla, is quite as 

 reallv and profoundly a 'human interest' as is stock-breeding, 

 agriculture or malaria. This conception has changed the whole 

 aspect of human thinking in the last half-century. No course in 

 zoology, which is more than commercial, can afford to neglect it." 



Two sizes of type are used. The matter in larger type can 

 be completed by a good class in a year. That in fine print is 

 intended as a background for reference and for extra work. 

 The book is divided into thirty chapters, each one of which is full 

 of information and suggestions for the teacher. "Zoology and 

 its Purpose " is the title of Chapter 1 . This is followed by chapters 

 on " Field Work," "Classification of Animals General Survey," 

 "Laboratory Work Forms of Matter," "Living and Non-living 

 Objects," "Plants and Animals," etc., etc. In the thirty chapters 

 are 407 separate headings and topics. The last chapter 

 "Economic Zoology" gives briefly interesting facts regarding 

 "Animals as a Food Supply," "Animals in Science and Medicine," 

 "Animals Directly Injurious to Man," "Animals Hurtful to 

 Plants and Plant Products," etc. 



The brief keys throughout the book will be found of much 

 value to the pupil. The work on the whole is concise and the 

 subjects are well chosen, and as the writer is a well known biolo- 

 gist, and one who knows the requirements of the teacher and 

 pupil, this, his latest contribution, will undoubtedlv be well 

 received. Dr. Galloway's other book "Text Book of Zoology," 

 xii + 481 pages, is now in its second edition. A. G. 



