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THE appearance of this little book is most opportune. The teaching of biology in schools, as an introduction to the proper understanding of the reproductive processes in man, is being urged insistently by biologists, and the time seems to be approaching rapidly when biology will take its proper place in the school curriculum. The author of this book, himself engaged in school work and therefore familiar with the practical difficulties of teaching the subject to children, has here drawn up a course of quite easy laboratory exercises, designed to allow pupils to see and handle for themselves embryological material to illustrate the fundamental principles of animal development. The exercises are very simply conceived and are such as can, with ease and very little expense, be carried out in any school with the minimum of apparatus. They include elementary observations and measurements on growth, and the principles and use of the simple lens and microscope.
Animals in the Making: an Introduction to the Study of Development.
By J. A. Dell. (Bell's Natural Science Series.) Pp. xii + 115 + 8 plates. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1925.) 2s. 6d.
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Animals in the Making: an Introduction to the Study of Development . Nature 116, 571 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116571a0
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