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Practical Science in Schools
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Practical Science in Schools

  • V. J. CHAPMAN1 

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A COMMUNICATION from my former biology master, Mr. A. G. Lowndes, in NATURE of June 1, p. 863, cannot, I feel, be allowed to pass without an answer. Since the time when I was very ably taught by Mr. Lowndes with plenty of laboratory work, I have become a biology examiner both in scholarships and School Certificate. I have, therefore, experienced the results of laboratory work in biology at school from two aspects in quite a short space of time, and my conclusions are the very opposite to those expressed by Mr. Lowndes.

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