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THESE three volumes may all be said to be books intended to introduce biology to pupils in schools. Mrs. Williams-Ellis's book is intended for young children of about seven or eight years of age. The volume by Mangham and Sherrifls is supposed to be f or older boys and girls before they enter a university; whilst Dr. Haupt's “Fundamentals of Biology” is a reprint of lectures given to freshmen in New York, but the intellectual level attained by American freshmen is lower than that attained in the upper forms of the science side in schools in England.
(1) How you Began: a Child's Introduction to Biology.
By Amabel Williams-Ellis. Pp. 96. (London: Gerald Howe, Ltd., 1928.) 2s. 6d. net.
(2) A First Biology.
By Prof. S. Mangham Prof. W. Rae Sherriffs. Pp. viii + 184. (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1928.) 2s. 6d.
(3) Fundamentals of Biology.
By Prof. Arthur W. Haupt. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Zoological Sciences.) Pp. xii + 358. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1928.) 15s. net.
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M., E. Our Bookshelf. Nature 123, 11 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123011a0
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