With more than two hundred illustrations. "To the "man in the street" the biologist, with his "bugs"
or his "derms", frequently appears as a harmless but equally useless individual. Thus in an issue of the "New Republic" shortly after America's entrance into the world war, a seriocomic
writer in criticizing the action of President Wilson in
appointing a committee on national preparedness from the
National Academy of Sciences says: "I doubt if any other
nation ever responded to the prospect of war with a scheme
of national defense which included a Committee on Zoology
and Animal Morphology."" (Preface)
With more than two hundred illustrations. "To the "man in the street" the biologist, with his "bugs"
or his "derms", frequently appears as a harmless but equally useless individual. Thus in an issue of the "New Republic" shortly after America's entrance into the world war, a seriocomic
writer in criticizing the action of President Wilson in
appointing a committee on national preparedness from the
National Academy of Sciences says: "I doubt if any other
nation ever responded to the prospect of war with a scheme
of national defense which included a Committee on Zoology
and Animal Morphology."" (Preface)
Benjamin C. Gruenberg,Consultant, Social Security Board Formerly Chairman Biology Departments Commercial and Julia Richman High Schools New York City and N. Eldred Bingham,Horace Mann-Lincoln School Teachers College, Columbia University
"To clear the way for the understanding of the line of argument adopted in this little book, I commence with a quotation from Herbert Spencer's
Synthetic Philosophy, on the scope of Biology.
I do this for two reasons :
1. To present the reader with the fullest and
clearest explanation obtainable, of the meaning of
the words "Biology" and "Biological."
2. To show what are those principles or ...
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Biology and man (1944)
By: Benjamin C. Gruenberg and N. Eldred Bingham
Benjamin C. Gruenberg,Consultant, Social Security Board Formerly Chairman Biology Departments Commercial and Julia Richman High Schools New York City and N. Eldred Bingham,Horace Mann-Lincoln School Teachers College, Columbia University
The biology of daily life (1890)
By: John Henry Napper Nevill
"To clear the way for the understanding of the line of argument adopted in this little book, I commence with a quotation from Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy, on the scope of Biology. I do this for two reasons : 1. To present the reader with the fullest and clearest explanation obtainable, of the meaning of the words "Biology" and "Biological." 2. To show what are those principles or ...