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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1933.

BIOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS

CIVILISATION AND

Hitherto the value of biology in

while the supply of suitable biology courses was one of the most pressing needs In public schools, theje courses should come late in the general science course. The boy was 'human and moat

·

TWO MEN SWEPT OFF SUBMARINE

Thames was on her way to Ports-

mouth and about a mile and a

balf from the shoro. After an unsuccessful search for the men she returned to Portland.

Stunnell's home was at Gosport,

VAIN SEARCH IN

· EVOLUTION

HEAVY SEAS At the British conference on the humanly interested in his body:

Ablo Seaman Henry E., Stunnell he was also humanly rational and and Signalman Leonard J. Bache- place of biology in education, the importance of biology as the, wanted to know something of his lor, of the crow of the submarine" basis of a sociological and cut- mind and its place in the universe. Thames, were awept overboard by tural education was given as the He wanted to know something of heavy seas off St. Albans Head chief reason for the extension of the functions of digestion, re-recently. the teaching of biology in schools, spiration, and secretion. Such a The accident occurred while the its applications in medicine, course required a previous study agriculture, hyglone, etc.; haa of physics and chemistry, and a generally been regarded as the fairly developed mind. For this justification for biological courses. reason biology was not a suitable An impressive group of public subject for school certificate ex-

Hampshire. Signalman Bachelor men, civil servants, and scientists aminations.

was married, and lived at North appeared on the platform to plead for more biology in education,

Crawley, Senior End, Portsmouth.

H.M.S. Thames, a new type of Viscount Chelmsford. Sir Stephen Bledical Officer of the Board of ocean-going submarine, was com- Tallents, Sir Walter Fletcher, Sir Education, related the teaching of plated in September at the Borrow William Hardy, Professor A. Viology in elementary schools with works of Vickers Armstrong, Hill, and other speakers showed that they were concerned with the public health. New health educa-Limited. She in the last of the world's present social crisis, and tion, he said, was no simple mat-three submarines to be built under be done the 1929 programme, and is the were looking to biology to give tor, and it could not youth a biological outlook which without being grounded in biology.frat of a new class of

She is the fifth would improve their human under- The contemporary discussions of going vessels. standing, no that inter-racial and sex-teaching in schools were real. largest submarine in the world. other difficulties might be resolved. ly a result of the failure to tench After the social motive, the cul- who left school at fourteen years

biology properly. Every child £30, 000 BEQUEST TO À

COMPANION tural value of biology was stress of age should have a clear know- ledge of the function of sox in animals, plants, and himself.

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Dr. R. H.

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AN ADOPTION ROMANCE Professor l contended that as

By the will of Mrs. Sarah Galin- human beings are living beings, Mr. D. Ward Cutler, biologist de, of Branksome Wood-read, they themselves and their society to the Rothamsted Experimental Bournemouth, who left £44,500, could not be understood without Station, argued that biology lent the residue of the property, biology. Civilisation, he said itself to interesting teaching, estimated at over £30,000, is was a product of a certain sort especially for young children. bequeathed to her companion, of biological organism, ourselves. They were usually interested in Edith Galindo (formerly Tochatti) and was therefore a blological animals, and this interest might and her husband, Mr. Douglas entity. Consequently, civilisation be used as the foundation for Galindo (formerly Tochatti). was incomprehensible without a sound teaching. It was necessary The husband, in as interview knowledge of biology.

to realise that human beings were įstated: "Just after the war I was the product of evolution, and that engaged as Mrs. Galindo's Be- their nature was based on animal 'cretary and my wife on hor com- The Rev. 5. A. McDowall open- nature. No child should, leave|panion. My name was then To- ed a discussion on the methods school without knowing this. chatti. Mrs, Galindo was remark- of teaching biology. He is the When the relation of human and ably fond of our children and sho biology master

Winchester | animal nature was understood the insisted on us going to live with College, and spoke on blem as he saw it in school. He stated his

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