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Pi'ofessor E. W. Gudger has recently published A Primer of House- 

 hold Biology* of decided merit. The book has been reviewed by Dr. 

 James J. Wolfe, of Trinity College — this review having appeared in 

 a folder from the State Normal College. To give this review a wider 

 circulation I take pleasure in reprinting it below. I can heartily 

 recommend the book for use as a text in biology in high schools, and 

 believe it is particularly suitable for girls as a preparation for more 

 intelligent conduct of the home. As indicating still further the cor- 

 dial reception Dr. Gudger's Primer has received, I quote from a letter 

 to Dr. Gudger from Dr. W. T. Sedgwick, of the Massachusetts In- 

 '^titute of Technology, who is a biologist of the highest reputation. 



w. c. c. 



Dr. Sedgwick says : 



"At last I have got around to looking over rather carefully your Primer of 

 Household Biology, upon the appearance of which I hasten to congratulate you. 



"You have undoubtedly done a good thing — in the first place in drawing 

 attention to the subject and the need of household biology. We have long had 

 household economics, household sanitation, and household bacteriology, and it 

 was high time that we had a household biology. 



"Your choice of forms and your treatment in each case seems to me thor- 

 oughly scientific and yet practical, and you have made the book a real 

 Biology." 



The review by Dr. Wolfe follows : 



"A book now issued as a bulletin and modestly styled primer by its 

 author, represents a new departure in the teaching of Biology in this 

 country. Here for the first time so far as the writer knows, have the 

 facts of this science with a bearing on household efficiency been mar- 

 shaled with a view to welding them into an organized body of knowl- 

 edge. Twelve years spent in teaching this subject to young women 

 has peculiarly well fitted Dr. Gudger to choose wisely the materials 

 best adapted to this purpose. 



''The laboratory work embraces the study of only five types of liv- 

 ing things, viz., a green alga, 3'east, amoeba, bacteria, and molds. The 



*A Primer of Household Biology by E. W. Gudger, Ph.D. Bull. N. C. State Norm, and 

 Ind. Col., Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3-103, Sept. 1917. For .sale by the College, price 55 cents. 



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