ON ANIMAL BIOLOGY IN THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM. 401 



The addition of six periods per week for Mathematics during each of the last 

 three years would bring the total periods allotted to science to fifteen per week. This 

 out of a total of thirty-five seems a very fair apportionment. 



A school known to the Committee prepares for the School Certificate examinations 

 in all three subjects with the following time-table : — 



An alternative adopted by some schools is the teaching of Physics and Chemistry 

 as a combined subject, as we are advocating for Botany and Zoology in the present 

 Report. The Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board provides a School 

 Certificate examination in Physics-and-Chemistry, the entries for which are con- 

 siderably in excess of those for the Physics or Chemistry School Certificate examina- 

 tions of the same Board. 



APPENDIX I. OBTAINING OF SPECIMENS. 



It is very desirable that, wherever possible, specimens should be collected in their 

 natural habitat by the pupils themselves, but where this is not practicable for par- 

 ticular specimens, the teacher is advised to get into touch with the Departments of 

 Zoology and Botany in one of the Universities, as it is likely that the laboratory 

 attendant in such departments may be able either to supply the material required 

 or to put the teacher in touch with reliable dealers. 



APPENDIX II. 



BOOKS SUGGESTED AS SUITABLE FOR SCHOOL 

 LIBRARIES. 



There is room for some diversity of opinion as to whether a textbook, sensu striciu, 

 should be in the hands of the pupils throughout the course ; while many teachers will 

 doubtless prefer to dispense with such, at least in Junior work, and rather to encourage 

 the compilation of notes made from original observations, all will agree that a reference 

 library of biological works is a sine qvd non. In the following list 



t Indicates books with a trend towards social and economic science ; 



** Indicates books which may be read for mere amusement, but none the less 

 furnish a valuable contribution to the biological backgroimd ; 



*** Indicates books which may be looked upon as a nucleus in the formation of 

 a new library. 



It is obvious that still further valuable books could be listed if space permitted . 



Further works are included in the List of Books Suitable for School Science Libraries 

 compiled by a Joint Committee of the Science Masters' Association and the Association 

 of Women Science Teachers, and obtainable from the Rev. T. J. Kirkland, Ki g's 

 School, Ely (S.M.A.), and Miss M. E. Birt, St. Paul's Girls' School, Brook Green, W. 6 

 (A.W.S.T.), 1925, 1/1, post free. A list of books for Science Libraries, with primary 

 reference to elementary schools, is given by John Brown in ' Teaching Science in 



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