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THIS is an effort to meet the requirements of candidates for the Queen's Scholarship in Section II. of the syllabus of elementary science. Its scope is best described by the sub-title “A Course of Lessons and Experiments in Elementary Science,” but it is necessary to add that the only branches of science touched upon are chemistry and astronomy. In both these subjects some knowledge gained by experiment and observation is now expected; but though the author claims to have kept this in view throughout, there is little in the book to entitle it to be called practical. It is true that reference is made to seventy-four experiments in chemistry, but they are for the most part better adapted as suggestions for the teacher than for performance by the student. In the astronomical section an excellent course of reading lessons is provided, but the author has by no means taken sufficient advantage of the opportunity of directing the student's attention to the heavenly bodies themselves. Instead of the descriptions of simple apparatus for making observations which might have been expected, such, for instance, as the measurement of altitude and azimuth, half-a-dozen class-room demonstrations are alone given.
Elementary Practical Physiography (Section II.).
By J. Thornton Pp. viii + 208. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900.)
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F., A. Elementary Practical Physiography (Section II). Nature 61, 539 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061539b0
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