404 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 



•**Tansley, A. G., ' Elements of Plant Biology.' (Allen & Unwin, 10/6.) 



' Practical Plant Ecology.' (Allen & Unwin, 7/6.) 



Taylor, J. E., ' Flowers : Their Origin, Shapes, Perfumes and Colours.' 

 (J. Grant, 2/6.) 

 ♦♦*Thoday, D., ' Botany : A Textbook for Senior Students.' (Cambridge Uni- 

 versity Press, 7/6.) 

 Thomson, J. Arthur, ' The Study of Animal Life.' (Murray, 6/-,) 



' Towards Health.' (Methuen, 7/6.) 



' The Biology of Birds.' (Sidgwick & Jackson, 16/-.) 



♦♦♦Thomson, J. Arthur : One or more books, such as : — 

 ' Biology of the Seasons.' (Melrose, 15/-.) 

 ' The Wonder of Life.' (Mekose, 15/-.) 

 ' The Secrets of Animal Life.' (Melrose, 9/-,) 

 ' Natural History Studies.' (Melrose, 7/6.) 

 Thomson, M. and J. Arthur, ' Threads in the Web of Life.' (Macmillan, 2/6.) 

 Unwin, E. E., ' Pond Problems.' (Cambridge University Press, 3/-.) 

 Wallace, Alfred R., ' Darwinism.' (Macmillan, 8/6.) 



• Island Life.' (Macmillan, 8/6.) 



Walter, H. E., ' Genetics.' (Macmillan, 10/-.) 



Ward, H. B., and Whipple, G. C, ' Fresh Water Biology.' (Chapman & Hall, 36/-.) 

 ♦♦♦Wayside and Woodland Series (Wame) : — 



Coward, T. 4-> ' The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs.' (1st series, 



10/6 ; 2nd series, 10/6). 

 Jenkins, J. Travis, ' The Fishes of the British Isles.' (12/6.) 

 South, R., ' Lepidoptera of the British Isles.' Vols. I and II, Moths 



(12/6 each) ; Vol. Ill, Butterflies (8/6). 

 Step, Edward, ' Animal Life of the British Isles : Guide to Mammals, Reptiles 



and Batrachians.' (10/6.) 

 South, R., ' Wayside and Woodland Trees.' (7/6.) 



' Wayside and Woodland Blossoms.' 2 series. (7/6.) 



Weiss, F. E., ' Plant Life and its Romance.' (Longmans, 5/-.) 

 Woodhead, T. W., 'A Study of Plants.' (Clarendon Press, 6/6.) 



APPENDIX III. QUOTATIONS FROM RECENT GOVERNMENT 



DOCUMENTS. 



The position of the teaching of Biology has been referred to a good deal of late 

 in documents published by Government Departments ; the following are selected 

 extracts : — 



' Natural Science in Education, being the Report of the Committee on the position 

 of Natural Science in the Educational System of Great Britain.' H.M. Stationery 

 Office, London, 1918. (Price 1/6.) (Sometimes referred to as the Report of the 

 Prime Minister's Committee.) 



Sect. 8 (2). Boys' Schools. ' The science teaching is in general confined to the 

 elements of physics and chemistry ; botany and zoology are, as a rule, taught 

 only to those boys who intend to enter the medical profession.' 



Sect. 41 (a). ' At present the curriculum up to the age of 16 in a large number of 

 boys' schools consists of nature study in the lowest forms, followed by a 

 laboratory course in at least one branch of physics and in chemistry ; in very 

 few boys' schools is there any attempt to give a knowledge of the main facts 

 of the life of plants and animals . . . but no boy should leave school with the 

 idea that science consists of chemistry and physics alone. It ia agreed on 

 almost all hands that the customary course, which is a growth- of the last 

 twenty years, has become too narrow.' 



Sect. 27. Girls' Schools. In inspected girls' schools ' after a course of nature 

 study in the earlier years, and elementary physics and chemistry between 

 12 and 14, botany is the subject taken from 14 or 15 onwards in the majority of 

 schools.' 



Sect. 52. All Secondary Schools. Referring to middle forms the Report runs : 

 ' We have already laid stress on the point that some knowledge of the main 



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