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The Control Of Weeds And Brush In Louisiana Pastures With Herbicides., Lionel Howell Prescott

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

A Curriculum Study Of The Biological Science Courses In The Secondary Schools And College Of Utah During 1947-48, Merrill H. Gunnell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

At the present time there is a feeling among biologists in Utah that there should be improvement in biological science courses and course sequence to better fill the needs of the non technical student. There are many students filling group requirements with an accumulation of courses which may not provide them with the more important fundamental concepts and principles in biology. Information concerning these courses in high schools and colleges in necessary to provide a basis for curriculum revision in the field. Such information should be useful in evaluating the present system and suggesting modifications. Because of the need for …

An Analytic Comparative Study Of Certain Biology Textbooks Used At Secondary School Level, Joseph E. Rankin

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Biology is the science of life and therefore deserves every consideration in the high school curriculum. The world today is making an extensive and intelligent use of biology in solving problems of personal and social significance. Scientists have discovered that certain phases of the subject are more important to man's welfare than others. For this reason it is essential that biology be presented to our high school students not as isolated facts, but in relation to the problem of living. Through this science of living things, the student can gain a healthy respect for facts and for conclusions based on …

September 1942, William Preston Davies

W. P. Davies' Newspaper Column ('That Reminds Me')

No abstract provided.

The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Summer Session - The School Year 1936, Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College

Annual Catalog

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Work Started On New Science Hall
• Dramatic Club Sponsors Play
• College To Assume Own Debt To PWA
• Music Program Highly Enjoyed
• Stephens Society Wins Term Debate
• King's Male Quarter Sings Here March 20
• Results Recent Newspaper Survey
• Little George-Anne Popular on Campus
• Book Reviews
• Sports
• Tide Faces Three New Foes In 1934
• Twenty-Five Men Out for Baseball
• Boxers Split Even With G.M.C. Fighters
• Among the Editors
• "What's In a Name"
• Physical Ed for Spring Announced
• Survey Shows Co-Eds Read More Than Men
• On Other Campuses

The Prairie View Standard - March 1933 - Vol. Xxiv No. 8, Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College

PV Standard Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Nature Of Adaptations, O. R. Clark

Science Bulletin

In the October number of this bulletin, in a discussion of the influence of environment upon the growth and development of plants, the statement was made that, on the whole, plants are quite well adapted to the conditions under which they grow. As to the manner by which this ''fitness” has arisen there are some differences of opinion and, in the opinion of the writer, a great many misunderstandings. This is a question to which no ''cut-and-dried'' answer can be given but to which a fundamental principle of biology may be applied.

Environment As A Factor In The Growth And Distribution Of Plants, O. R. Clark

Science Bulletin

The form and appearance of plants and the activities which they carry on are due in large part to the inherited characteristics of their ancestors. The influence which heredity exerts should be clearly and forcefully presented to students. At the same time the expression of the hereditary traits may be greatly modified by the conditions under which! the plants grow.

Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

Because of their relationship to dangerous human parasites, insects have been responsible for the death of more people than all other animals put together. Confirmation of this astounding statement can be seen in the close relationship between houseflies and typhoid fever, between rat fleas and plague, tsetse flies and sleeping sickness, and that between mosquitoes and yellow fever and malaria.

Household Insects, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

It was said above (see November Bulletin) that practically every animal is attacked by one or more kinds of insects. Man constitutes no exception to this statement, and it is my purpose in this article to deal with a few of the insects commonly found in or around our homes. Perhaps the most familiar of all household insects is the housefly.

Book Reviews

Butler University Botanical Studies

That biology is a unified subject, in contrast to botany and zoology as separate sciences, is continuing to make progress and its advocates are endeavoring to meet the pedagogical needs of teachers of various teaching views, is evidenced by the recent appearance of three new texts within the field. These texts are, Wheat and Fitzpatrick's "Advanced Biology"; Plunkett's "Outlines of Modern Biology"; and Scott's "Science of Biology."

Certain Floristic Affinities Of The Trees And Shrubs Of The Great Smoky Mountains And Vicinity, Stanley A. Cain

Butler University Botanical Studies

It is widely admitted that the forests of eastern United States reach their culmination in the southern Appalachians, particularly in the Unaka range of North Carolina and Tennessee. It is in the mountains of this range that the greatest height east of the Rocky mountains is reached; in the Black mountains with Mt. Mitchell, the Craggy mountains and the Great Smoky mountains, with some forty peaks over 6,000 feet in altitude, and with Mt. Guyot and Clingman's Dome topping them all. Here on these lofty peaks (for many of them rise over a mile in altitude above their base), in …

Living Material In The Laboratory, O. R. Clark

Science Bulletin

Living plants and animals serve as valuable aids in stimulating interest in the biology course and, during that part of the year when field trips are impossible, provide material for the study of habits and the relation of organisms to their environment. Laboratory conditions are of course artificial but they should be made as nearly natural as it is possible to make them.

Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

Biologically speaking, insects may be called a highly successful group, and much of this success is due to their adaptability to the conditions of their environment. They are found everywhere, and eat almost everything. All of the large groups of insects are world-wide in their distribution, though the most widely distributed are the beetles.

Insects And Man, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

Mrs. Jiggs, in the cartoon, "Bringing up Father," frequently calls her husband an insect. This is a flagrant misuse of the term as an insect never has fewer nor more than six legs. It may be wingless as are the bedbugs, two winged as are all flies, or four winged as the grasshoppers, but no normal insect ever has more or less than six legs and by this one positive character you may know them.

Collecting Specimens At Night, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

Many teachers of biology don’t realize how much valuable biological material may be collected after dark. In fact, certain specimens, as grasshoppers, earthworms, and various species of amphibia, are most easily captured then.

Introducing The Biology Course In The Classroom, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

The success of any course in high school science often depends upon the interest aroused in it during the first days of its presentation. This interest is particularly easy to arouse in biology, chiefly, l suppose, because people are always interested in living things, or things that have been alive. Moreover, though he does not recognize it as such, nearly every pupil has considerable biological knowledge when he first comes to class, and it is this preliminary knowledge which can be made a strong entering wedge into his interest in the subject.

Cockroaches For Laboratory Study, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

Teachers of high school biology are often handicapped by a lack of living material. This is particularly true in the teaching of insects. Most texts in biology use the grasshopper as a type of insect, largely, I suppose, because of its familiarity to the average pupil.

What Are We Teaching In Biology?, C. W. Lantz

Science Bulletin

This subject in order to be of real value must be an actual study of plants and animals. I have observed in my teaching that pupils, when given recognition characters of trees, may be able to pass a satisfactory examination on these characters, but fail to recognize the trees they describe when they see them in the field. They have simply memorized words that mean nothing to them.

Some Suggestions For Winter Study Of Biology In High Schools, Roy L. Abbott

Science Bulletin

Considerable criticism has recently been directed against the commonly accepted methods of teaching Biology in our secondary school and colleges. John Burroughs once re- marked that he had never dissected an animal and was glad of it, implying by this, I take it, that we do not learn Nature by dissecting her children. Recently Wheeler of Harvard, has voiced a similar criticism by saying that our teaching of Biology is suffering from academic dry rot; that laboratory dissection of a dead animal gives the student a knowledge of the details of structure of that animal without giving any knowledge of, …

Chelonian Brain-Membranes, Brain-Bladder, Metapore And Metaplexus, John P. Munson

Biology Faculty Scholarship

The chelonian brain is not too small to be studied macroscopically. It is easily removed from the skull. Minute surface details and the cell structure can be easily observed.

Organization And Polarity Of Protoplasm, John P. Munson

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

In higher forms of life, we usually concede the presence of an organ specialized for the performance of a function. In these higher forms coordination of organs, which entails a regular sequence in their functions, is readily made out; and it seems a mere platitude to say, of these, that organization determines the functions of the organism. To what extent can functions exist in the absence of organization; does the one precede the other; or have function and organization developed simultaneously, out of matter devoid of both structure and function? In my studies on the cell, I have kept these …

Embryology And Evolution, Malo Marius Amunson

Manuscript Thesis Collection

The proofs of evolution must be sought in the entire field of science. Direct proof is found in the study of Morphology, whose bases are comparative anatomy; embryology; in the study of paleontology, of geology, of geographical distribution, in the study of nature and experiments of today. In this vast field of direct proofs of evolution it is our purpose to present some of the evidences of evolution as furnished by one of these, namely, Comparative Embryology.

Spermatogenesis Of The Butterfly, Papilio Rutulus, John P. Munson

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

For a number of years I have been studying the spermatogenesis of Papilio rutulus (pl. 12, fig. 1) not ,with any one single problem especially in view, but with the aim of ascertaining the entire life history of its sperm cell, its various phases of development, its mode of growth and differentiation, the history of its several parts, and its relation to the organism.

Some Observations On Living Cells, S. Calvin

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Introductory Address Delivered Before The Students Of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia., Samuel Henry Dickson, Md, Lld

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

No abstract provided.

Introductory Lecture To The Course On The Institutes Of Medicine, In Jefferson Medical College, Delivered October 8, 1860., Robley Dunglison, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

No abstract provided.

Professor Dunglison's Introductory Lecture In Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia, October 19, 1848., Robley Dunglison, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

No abstract provided.