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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Jan. 22 then in other schools visited. Work books were in good condition.
In the zoology lab., 50 x 30 ft. (?), the students were completing drawings in their notebooks. One girl was stippling a drawing of an amoeba but was not examining a specimen. I gain the impression that stress is on art rather than direct study of animals. There were many excellent drawings. Each student had & printed syllabus which guided by questioning, an understanding of animal morphology. The students start with vertebrates and then go to invertebrates.
They study the structure of a variety of representative types - rabbit, frog, pigeon, earthworm, cockroach, etc. An exercise at the parts of a microscope was seen. Labours, & carefully executed drawings had been prepared - shaded and labelled. Their bright young teacher [illegible] said that function was covered in lectures - structure in the lab. Pakistan animals are used. Local firms had made plaster models of frog dissection, life history stages of the frog, & large number of wall charts were seen, many of which were foreign manufacture. There were wall displays of foreign butterfly life histories (in colr) - probably British species. A sadly stuffed pigeon, and rabbit were seen and the principal said they had a person who does this sort of thing and she wants the students to learn the technique.