ELEMENTARY BIOLOGY BY JAMES EDWARD PEABODY, Head of the Cloth, 12mo, illustrated, 593 pages, ELEMENTARY PLANT BIOLOGY 207 pages, list price, 65 cents ELEMENTARY BIOLOGY, ANIMAL AND HUMAN 406 pages, list price, $1.00 Strong Points Briefly Stated I. The authors are particularly well qualified to prepare a text in biology. II. The book emphasizes especially the relation of biology to human welfare. III. It is scientifically accurate. IV. Many of the illustrations are new, all are sig V. nificant. Summaries and reviews are excellent. VI. Text and laboratory manual are combined in one volume. VII. The manner of presentation is untechnical, interesting, and well adapted to the interests and ability of high school students. VIII. The appendix contains valuable suggestions for both teacher and pupil. IX. Typography and binding are excellent. The latter is the reinforced tape binding that is characteristic of Macmillan textbooks. Strong Points Developed and Illustrated I. The authors are particularly well qualified to prepare a text in biology. Mr. Peabody is Chairman of the sub-committee appointed by the National Education Association to prepare a report on the teaching of biology. Both authors have added to excellent scientific training many years of successful experience in the teaching of biology in secondary schools. Both have developed the biological work in their respective schools to a high degree of efficiency. Both served on the committees appointed by the New York State Department of Education to prepare the State Syllabus in Biology for use in the high schools of the state. They have brought to the preparation of this textbook not only sound scholarship, but also an unusual acquaintance with the interests and needs of secondary school pupils and the conditions under which these pupils work. II. The book emphasizes especially the relation of biology to human welfare. Plant Biology Uses of plants for food, clothing, pp. 127-132 Uses of forests, forest conservation, pp. 132-139 Beneficial and injurious fungi, pp. 139-153 Methods of cultivating plants, pp. 102-114 Improvement of plants by man, pp. 119-125 Animal Biology Destructive work of insects, pp. 13-20, 30 Relation of mosquitoes to malaria and yellow fever, and of flies to typhoid fever, pp. 47-59 Methods of exterminating injurious insects, pp. 54-56, 57-59, 61 Work of bees and of silkworms, pp. 33-43, 20-28 Necessity for protection of birds, pp. 91-96 Human Biology Bacteria as the friends of man, pp. 20-22 Cooking foods, food economy, diet, pp. 52-62 Hygiene of digestion, pp. 102-105; of circulation, pp. 119-121; of respiration, pp. 132-138; of skin, pp. 141-143; of skeleton, pp. 147-150; of muscles, pp. 151-154; of nervous system, pp. 160-162; of the eyes, p. 165. As an illustration of the sane, practical, helpful treatment of topics that are of interest to boys and girls of high school age, note the discussion of principles underlying the process of reproduction. Plant Biology-Pages 3, 76-79, 82-88, 120-122, 163, 164, 168 Animal Biology-Pages 11, 28, 36, 70, 114, 137141, 159, 190-191 III. It is scientifically accurate. Different parts have been read in manuscript and heartily approved by well-known experts in particular fields. Plant Biology complete was read by Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Director of the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; Plant Breeding by Dr. H. J. Webber, of Cornell University; Insects by Dr. H. P. Felt, New York State Entomologist; Bees by E. R. Root, author and publisher of the "A. B. C. of Bee Culture"; Birds and Fishes by Dr. W. T. Hornaday, Director of the Zoological Gardens of New York City; Bacteria by Dr. W. H. Park, Director of the New York Laboratories of Board of Health; Tuberculosis by Dr. T. S. Carrington, Secretary of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; Foods by the late Professor W. O. Atwater, government expert on Nutrition; The Nervous System, by Dr. O. S. Strong, of Columbia University. IV. Many of the illustrations are new; all are significant and well executed. Plant Biology-Diagrams, Figures 3, 12, 20, 28, 35, 60, 81, 87, 89, 90, 91. Half-tones. Frontispiece, Figures 10, 17, 18, 23, 36, 52, 57, 58, 61, 63. Animal Biology-Diagrams, Figures 33, 37, 80, 90, 98, 99, 100. Half-tones. Frontispiece, Figures 4, 5, 12, 13, 16, 23, 26, 34, 36, 38, 48, 51, 54, 56, 58, 61, 63, 73, 77, 78. Human Biology-Diagrams, Figures 6, 8, 16, 19, 20, 25. Half-tones, Frontispiece, Figures 2, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17. The labels are attached to the parts of the drawings, rather than put in a list below the drawings as in most books. Plant Biology-Figures 6, 12, 15, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 35, 81, 90, 91. Animal Biology—Figures 6, 16, 28, 31, 37, 41, 46, 51, 80, 85, 98, 100, 133, 137. Human Biology—Figures 2, 5, 28, 30, 33, 36, 38, 44, 45, 55. V. Summaries and reviews are excellent. The summaries at the end of chapters and the review topics in the appendices furnish epitomes of the various chapters of the book. These have been found of great value in assisting pupils to retain the essential facts and principles of the subject. Plant Biology-Pages 62, 63, 69, 88, 160, Appendix Animal Biology-Pages 89-91, 192-194, Appendix Human Biology-Pages 62-63, 105-106, 119, Ap- VI. Text and laboratory manual are combined in one volume. The laboratory work is made the basis of the whole course. It is outlined so clearly, as the result of repeated testing and revision by the authors, that most pupils can follow the directions, make their observations and deduce their conclusions with very little assistance from the teacher. The text supplements the knowledge gained by the laboratory experiments but does not, except in rare instances, contain answers to the questions in the laboratory sections. The book contains material (text and laboratory experiments) for a year's work in biology with a considerable amount of optional work. The combination of text and manual in one volume renders extra expense for a separate manual unnecessary. |