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THESE diagrams are designed for use in schools, and to “supply the teacher with a means (by teaching the pupils to draw from them) of impressing the form and organs of the different parts of the body on the pupils' minds.” There are nine in all (each 22 X 30) printed in black upon cardboard, with eyelet holes for hanging purposes. The parts are represented in hard outline, each being numbered, in accordance with a series of explanatory reproductions in miniature, which accompany the “text.” The whole production is most feeble. It is only when the author relies upon standard works that his diagrams are tolerable, and his only really useful sheet (No. 1) is a copy. Seeing that much better wall diagrams have long been before the public, we are at a loss to see any raison d'être for these poor apologies. We are told that “the principal object of these drawings is to facilitate the teaching of physiology in schools.” So much the worse for the schools! We cannot congratulate either author or publishers upon their venture. The day is past in which anything in outline will pass current for an atlas; and pictorial aids to the teaching of elementary physiology, to be of any service, must be produced by competent authorities.
Physiological Diagrams.
With an Index. By G. Davies. (Edinburgh and London: W. and A. K. Johnston, 1889.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 40, 317 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040317b0
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