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THE difficulty of finding English diagrams suitable for the teaching of biology in schools is a byword amongst teachers of the subject. Philip's series will do something to remove the complaint. They are diagrammatically accurate, bold in design and colouring (although a little crude), well lettered, and of a size (24 in. × 38 in.) suitable for all except large laboratories and class-rooms. The series of sixteen charts contains four illustrating Mendelian inheritance, although unfortunately none shows a simple case of dominant and recessive characters, six are of skeletons or parts of skeletons, four illustrate common zoological types, and two are botanical. In making a selection for this limited series the designers wisely chose subjects which do not readily lend themselves to blackboard illustration. The charts are mounted on cloth and may be obtained at the same prices dissected to fold in four, or varnished with a roller ; varnished diagrams, however, are useless in many laboratories because of light reflections from the glazed surface.
Philip's Biology Wall Charts
Designed and Drawn by the Rev. R. A. Ellis and A. E. Ellis. A. 1: Flower Colour. A. 2: Plumage Colour. A. 3: Shell Colour. A. 4: Comb Characters B. 5: Skull of Dog. B. 6: Skull of Dog. B. 7: Skeleton of Rabbit. B. 8: Skull of Rabbit. B. 9: Rabbit: Ribs, Sternum, etc. B. 10: Rabbit Limb Bones. C. 11: Protozoa. C. 12: Earthworm: General Anatomy. C. 13: Earthworm: Transverse Section, etc. C. 14: Frog. D. 15: Green Algæ. D. 16: Leaf. (London: G. Philip and Son, Ltd.) Double Charts, 11s. 6d. Single Chart, 6s. 3d.
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Philip's Biology Wall Charts. Nature 141, 854 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141854b0
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