PRELIMINARY DIRECTIONS. 
J. DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING A LABORATORY NoTEBOOK 
In ZOOLOGY. 
A. Materials.—Each student should provide: 
1. Glencoe covers fastened with a shoe string, to be used for filing finished, 
corrected notes and drawings. 
2. One-half pound note paper, ruled on both sides, to fit Glencoe covers. 
3. A dozen sheets Buckeye Linen Ledger drawing paper to fit Glencoe 
covers. 
4. Two sheets thin cardboard (either manilla or “ mounting board ’’), to fit 
Glencoe covers. 
5. Four manilla envelopes, to be used for storing the blank paper and un- 
corrected work. The student’s name and seat number should be placed in the 
upper right-hand corner; the class and hour in the upper left-hand corner. 
The particular use of the envelope should be recorded in its center, thus: 
“ Blank Note Paper’”’; “ Blank Drawing Paper”; “ Hand-in Envelope ” (two of 
these can be used). On the last mentioned envelope the student’s name should 
appear on the flap, also. 
Items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 may be obtained from the dealers by asking for a 
“ Zoology Note Book.” 
6. A 4H Kohinoor drawing pencil. A 5H ora 6H Kohinoor drawing pencil 
in addition is desirable, but is not absolutely necessary. 
>. Lead eraser with beveled edge. 
8. Pen, ink and blotter. 
All the above should be kept in the laboratory and not be taken 
away for use elsewhere, except by special permission. 
B. Note Writing—1. The laboratory notebook is to be used 
only for laboratory work; lecture notes and information ob- 
tained by reading should not be included. This notebook is 
intended to represent so far as possible the results of a first 
hand study of nature and should record only direct observations 
actually made by the student and his inferences from these 
observations. 
2. The laboratory notes will usually consist only of explicit and 
complete answers to questions asked or problems stated in the 
laboratory directions. The answer to a question should take the 
form of a complete statement; that is, in reading the answer one 
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