428 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 



9. A list of books considered useful for School Libraries is given. 



10. Any initial difficulties regarding the obtaining of specimens can be met by 

 the teacher getting into touch with one of the University Departments of Zoology or 

 Botany. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



1. It is urged that Biology should be included as a fundamental subject in the 

 curriculum of all schools, whether for boys or for girls, so that every boy and girl 

 should study plant, animal and human biology during several years of school life. 



2. The Universities are invited : 



(a) to note the shortage of men teachers having training in either Zoology or 

 Botany ; also the comparative neglect in some Universities of the Zoological 

 side of the training of women for the teaching of the Biological subjects in 

 secondary schools ; 



(6) to review the needs of their science students who are intending to become 

 teachers (intending teachers form a large proportion of the students in the 

 modern Universities) with a view to providing schemes of study related 

 more definitely to their needs. The present Honours Degree schemes are 

 designed to meet the requirements of specialists ; it is submitted that there 

 is need for a more general recognition of schemes of ' general Honours ' as 

 an alternative path to a good degree. Such schemes already obtain at 

 London and Manchester. 



3. Those School Certificate and Matriculation Examination Bodies which do not 

 at present provide syllabuses in Biology, namely, the University of Bristol, the Oxford 

 and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, the Cambridge Local Examinations 

 Syndicate, and the University of London Matriculation Board, are invited to consider 

 the desirability of providing them. 



ADDITIONAL REFERENCES. 



It is not the purpose of the Committee to compile an exhaustive list of References, 

 but in addition to those included in the text the following may be given. 



Board of Education. Handbook of Suggestions for the consideration of Teachers and 

 others concerned in the work of Public Elementary Schools. H.M. 

 Stationery Office, London. 1927. 



Board of Education. Handbook of Suggestions on Health Education for the considera- 

 tion of Teachers and others concerned in the work of Public Elementary 

 Schools. H.M. Stationery Office, London. 1928. 



British Association. Report of the Committee appointed to consider and report upon the 

 Method and Substance of Science Teaching in Secondary Schools. Rept. 

 Brit. Ass. for 1917. London. 1918. 



Brown, John. Teaching Science in Schools. University of London Press. 1925. 

 (Intended to help the teacher, particularly the elementary school 

 teacher, whether he possesses special accommodation for practical 

 experimental work or not.) 



Brownell, Herbert, and Wade, F. B. The Teaching of Science and the Science Teacher. 

 The Century Co., New York and London. 1925. 



Dakin, William J. The Teaching of Biology in Secondary Schools. An Inaugural 

 Address to the Liverpool Biological Society. Trans. Liverpool Bio- 

 logical Society, vol. xxxviii, Liverpool. 1924. 



Fantham, H. B. The Question of the Teaching of Animal Biology in High Schools in 

 the Transvaal. South African Journal of Science, vol. xxiii, Johannes- 

 burg. December 1926. 



Friends' Guild of Teachers. The Teaching of the Life Sciences. Issued by the Research 

 Committee. Printed by Atkinson, Pontefract. Undated (1927). 

 Copies obtainable from the Secretary of the Guild, Bootham School, 

 York. Price 7d., post free. 



Heamshaw, F. J. C, and others. Educational Advancement Abroad. Harrap, 

 London. 1925. 



Herdman, W. A. Some Thoughts on Science Teaching in Schools. An Address given 

 at a Liverpool Secondary School for Girls, where it was proposed to 

 develop further teaching in Biology. The School World, April 1918. 



