Wells, H. G., Huxley, Julian S., and Wells, G. P. Science of Life. Doubleday, 1934. 

 [An excellent organization of interesting and informative material about all aspects of 

 life; best used as a reference book with the help of the index.] 



UNIT ONE • WHAT IS LIFE? 



Collingwood, G. H. Knowing Your Trees. American Forestry Association, 1941. [Il- 

 lustrated from photographs of the flowers, fruits, leaves and bark of trees, as well as 

 entire trees.] 



Fasten, Nathan. Introduction to General Zoology. Ginn and Company, 1941. [This college 

 textbook can serve as a stimulating survey of the forms and problems of animal life.] 



Hegner, Robert. Parade of the Animal Kingdom. Macmillan, 1935. [Good pictures and 

 interesting natural-history accounts by a distinguished biologist.] 



Jaques, H. E. How to Know the Insects. Published by the author. Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 

 [Convenient key to common orders and famihes, with practical help for collecting and 

 mounting.] 



Peterson, Roger Tory. A Junior Bool^ of Birds. Houghton, 1941. [A good introduction 

 to the more common forms.] 



Pool, Raymond }. Basic Course in Botany. Ginn and Company, 1940. [While intended 

 for college students, this book contains interesting information about plants, especially 

 as they take part in the transformation of matter upon the earth.] 



RoMER, Alfred S. Man and the Vertebrates. University of Chicago Press, 1939. [Helpful 

 survey of backboned animals; good illustrations.] 



UNIT TWO • UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS CAN WE LIVE? 



Dahlgren, B. E. The Story of Food Plants. Field Museum, Chicago, 1940. [A good sur- 

 vey of the plants that man has used in various parts of the world to advance his own life.] 



Furnas, C. C, and Furnas, S. M. Man, Bread and Destiny. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1937. 

 [How man's efforts to feed himself have changed the face of the earth.] 



Lamb, Ruth de Forest. American Chamber of Horrors : the Truth about Food and Drugs. 

 Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. [Some useful information about food and drugs as biological 

 problems, and especially as problems created by the social nature of the human species.] 



Peattie, Donald Culross. The Flowering Earth. Putnam, 1939. [A fascinating account 

 of chlorophyl in making the world a charming possibility for life.] 



Taylor, Clara Mae. Food Values in Shares and Weights. Macmillan, 1942. [A useful 

 combination of the latest scientific information about nutrition, with a practical scheme 

 for working out dietaries.] 



Food and Life. United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1939. 



UNIT THREE • HOW DO LIVING THINGS KEEP ALIVE? 



Cannon, Walter B. The Wisdom of the Body. Norton, 1940. [How the parts of the body 



influence one another in maintaining a united front in relation to the changes of the 



surrounding world.] 

 de Kruif, Paul. The Fight for Life. Harcourt, 1938. [.\ very lively account of men's 



efforts to find remedies for their bodily ills.] 

 Gerard, Ralph W. The Body Functions. Wiley, 1941. [Very readable and informative 



on what the title promises; written for grownups but quite usable by younger people.] 

 Needham, James G. About Ourselves. Cattell Press, 1941. [The kind of being man is, 



both as an organism and as a social and emotional and intelligent being.] 



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