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replacing the other separated units. The following items, selected from Table IV 

 on page 24 of C. W. Finley's Biology in Secondary Schools and the Training of Biology 

 Teachers, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York City, 1926, illustrate this. 

 Syllabuses of Biology, Botany and Zoology courses are given in Facilities for Foreign 

 Students in American Colleges and Universities, by S. P. Capen, Department of the 

 Interior, Bureau Educ, Bulletin, 1920, No. 39. Washington, Govt. Printing Office, 1921. 



Table XIV. 



Percentage of California Day High Schools providing Botany, Zoology, and Biology 



respectively. 



This Table should be read in relation with Table XI in Appendix V. 



The curricula for the Secondary Schools of the United States vary according to 

 the different localities, as each State and many large cities are independent authorities 

 for Education. The following further Table is therefore of interest : — 



Table XV. 

 High School Biology. Table based on statistics furnished by the several State Depart- 

 ments of Education ; published in ' Turtox News ' by the General Biological Supply 

 House, 1177-79 East 55th Street, Chicago, November 1926. The percentages given in 

 the Table are in every case approximate. 



