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THIS rather high-priced book completes a course in elementary science from which it is suggested that schools select subject-matter to suit their own particular needs. The earlier chapters are arranged so as to interlink the various sciences so far as possible, while the remaining chapters deal with work necessary to meet the requirements of students taking the general science paper in the School Certificate Examination. One distinct asset of the book is the good sectional diagrams which are made as simple as possible so that students can very easily follow them ; the diagrams of microscopes and telescopes are particularly good. It must be distracting to students, however, not to find diagrams on the same page as the corresponding descriptive matter ; examples of this occur on pages 167 and 169.
Elementary General Science
Edited by J. M. Harrison. Book 3. Pp. vii + 247. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 5s.
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Elementary General Science. Nature 149, 424 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149424c0
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