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WITH the object of helping teachers of biology in different types of schools at home and abroad, the British Social Hygiene Council has launched a new journal, Biology. It is hoped that the magazine will “serve as a medium for the interchange of ideas and information on practical and pioneer ventures in biology teaching”. The scope of Biology is suggested by the articles in the first number. They include one advocating microscope work, dissection and physiology of growth and development in elementary biology teaching; another describing the methods in use in African dependencies. More general articles deal with plant communities and the school; the value of the micro-projector; biological activities out of school; and biology and general science in the First School Examination. The hesitation and delay in the introduction of biological teaching in schools throughout Great Britain is due largely to the indefiniteness of the subject's boundaries, and the lack of well-organised graded courses of fairly definite content. If Biology can lead to the development of such courses by pooling information, it will be performing great service to the science of life.
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Biology, a new Journal. Nature 135, 466 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135466d0
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