Describes procedure for providing practice in critical reading of scientific manuscripts based on the introduction of deliberate flaws in published research reports for students to detect and correct. (AL)

The diffraction bands caused by a thin transparent plate of glass inserted over half the field in a spectrometer are discussed. (TS)

The facilities, course offerings, and opportunities in chemistry at Royal Holloway College are described. (TS)

Lists the rules of an instructional game designed to teach pathways of cellular metabolism and illustrates the playing board. (AL)

The laws of reflection, image formation, and geometric concepts are discussed in relationship to the images observed in a totally reflective sphere. (TS)

Describes a proposed curriculum development scheme for college chemistry. The content, materials, and structure needed to make a four-year chemistry curriculum relevant" and able to bring about a proper change in attitude" are suggested. (TS)

Describes scope, methods, and history of evolutionary biology. Illustrates the application of new mathematical treatments to problems of speciation, homology and ecology. Urges biologists to become familiar with these methods and to adopt a mathematical approach in teaching, arguing that much ecology taught today is irrelevant to theories now…