This textbook aims not to teach natural history, technically speaking, but to present such views of it as would be intelligible to the young student and to the general reader, and prepare them for, and lead them to engage in, a more extended study of the subject as it is presented in treatises more strictly scientific and in the works of nature.

In this textbook, by a few observations pupils are led to group all objects into the three Kingdoms of Nature--"Animal," "Vegetable," and "Mineral." Again, by observing differences, the Animal Kingdom is readily divided into five Sub-Kingdoms--"Vertebrates," "Annulates," "Mollusks,"…

This textbook is a science reader. Sections include: (1) Nature and Science (cause and effect, the laws of nature); (2) Material Objects: Mineral Bodies (states of water: ice, water, steam); (3) Material Objects: Living Bodies (living plants and living animals and their ability to grow); and (4) Immaterial Objects (mental phenomenon, psychology).

In this second book, the author presents animal physiology. The teacher and parent will observe, that in doing this the author brings out quite prominently the analogies that exist between the animal and the vegetable world in the operations of life. Such analogies are always interesting to the child as well as to the adult, and the consideration…

The author has created a series of books on the natural sciences carefully adapted to the different periods of the course of study, with this textbook intended for the older scholars in what are commonly called grammar-schools. At the same time they are suited to scholars who are advanced to a higher grade who have not gone through the previous…

Children are busy observers of natural objects, and have many questions to ask about them. But their inquisitive observation is commonly repressed, instead of being encouraged and guided. In this book the object of the author is to supply the mother and the teacher with the means of introducing the child into one department of natural…

In this third book, the author examines the phenomena that air and water themselves furnish to people. Then these subjects are naturally associated the other subjects contained in this book--light, heat, electricity, etc. The subjects of this book are those which are commonly ranged under the general term Natural Philosophy. The author frequently…

This textbook is designed to aid teachers who are using the "Fourteen Weeks Course." The problems contained in all the books are solved. The book contains answers in natural philosophy, chemistry, descriptive astronomy, experiments in chemistry, human physiology, physics, and astronomy.

Reviewed are the contributions of Gerald Spellman Craig to the field of elementary school science. Included are Craig's viewpoints on criteria to be used in selecting natural science objectives, examples of general and specific objectives that fit each of the criteria, and his ideas about content, its organization, and sequencing. (CS)

Native American science is defined as activities of native peoples of the New World in observing physical phenomena and attempting to explain and control them. Problems in studying native science, ethnoscience and native science, archaeostronomy and ethnoastronomy, ethnobotany, agriculture, technology, and future directions are discussed. (JN)

This textbook is a course in natural science and astronomy. The contents include mechanical properties of bodies; mechanics of solids; mechanics of fluids; nature and production of sound; nature and transmission of light; excitation and characteristic effects of electricity; properties and magnets; theoretical astronomy; and descriptive astronomy.

Relates the Victorian field sport of shooting to the development of the field science of ornithology in the nineteenth century. (CS)

The council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at its Cincinnati, Ohio meeting in December, 1923, authorized a special committee to make a study of the role played and to be played by science in education. That committee was organized in 1924, and the presentation of this bibliography is a product of its work. An adequate…

Argues that the Museum of Comparative Zoology Library reflects the union between the nineteenth century natural history values of Louis Agassiz and the twentieth century library and information science methodology. Special collections, records, cataloging and classification, serials and their classification, policies, services, and procedures are…

The way that the teacher/researcher ideal developed in Germany is discussed, along with discrepancies between the original context of the concept and the American one. The focal point is the foundation of the University of Berlin in 1810. Social, political, and intellectual development of the eighteenth century are reviewed, along with reforms at…