CONTENTS

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Foreword to Teachers[7]
I.Some Reasons for the Study ofBiology[15]
II.The Environment of Plants andAnimals[19]
III.The Interrelations of Plants andAnimals[28]
IV.The Functions and Composition ofLiving Things[47]
V.Plant Growth and Nutrition—TheCauses of Growth[58]
VI.The Organs of Nutrition inPlants—The Soil and its Relation to Roots[71]
VII.Plant Growth andNutrition—Plants make Food[84]
VIII.Plant Growth and Nutrition—TheCirculation and Final Uses of Food by Plants[97]
IX.Our Forests, their Uses and theNecessity of their Protection[105]
X.The Economic Relation of Green Plantsto Man[117]
XI.Plants without Chlorophyll in theirRelation to Man[130]
XII.The Relations of Plants toAnimals[159]
XIII.Single-Celled Animals considered asOrganisms[166]
XIV.Division of Labor, the Various Formsof Plants and Animals[173]
XV.The Economic Importance ofAnimals[197]
XVI.An Introductory Study ofVertebrates[232]
XVII.Heredity, Variation, Plant and AnimalBreeding[249]
XVIII.The Human Machine and itsNeeds[266]
XIX.Foods and Dietaries[272]
XX.Digestion and Absorption[296]
XXI.The Blood and itsCirculation[313]
XXII.Respiration and Excretion[329]
XXIII.Body Control and HabitFormation[348]
XXIV.Man's Improvement of hisEnvironment[373]
XXV.Some Great Names inBiology[398]
APPENDIX[407]
Suggested Course with Time Allotmentand Sequence of Topics for Course beginning in Fall[407]
Suggested Syllabus for Course inBiology beginning in February and ending the Next January[411]
Hygiene Outline[415]
Weights, Measures, andTemperatures[417]
Suggestions for LaboratoryEquipment[418]
INDEX[419]