LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR BIOLOGY 97

 SECTION 1. LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR THE
 SMALL BIOLOGY LABORATORY
 Dr. Jesse M. Shaver of George Peabody College for Teachers
 says concerning the biology laboratory,' "By all means it should
 be started and it should grow; for, contrary to the usual belief,
 the high-school teacher of biology needs a laboratory. Without
 it, the fundamental structures and processes of plants and
 animals, including man, cannot be taught; they can only be
 taught about. Pictures, lantern slides, and films are wonderful
 to supplement the things that the child discovers in the labora-
 tory, but they can never take the place of his first-hand informa-
 tion acquired by doing in the laboratory."
 Further suggestions from his article include these:
 What to Buy
 A small biological laboratory, accommodating fifteen stu-
 dents (or more in groups of fifteen), can make a small begin-
 ning on twenty-five or thirty dollars for equipment and enough
 specimens for the first year. This amount should buy:
 Equipment
 15 tripod magnifiers (one for each student).
 2 dozen Mason fruit jars, /2 gallon size, for preserving specimens
 and for aquaria.
 4 battery jars, 1-gallon capacity.
 1 doz. tumblers.
 V4 lb. corn seed.
 V4 lb. bean seed.
 V4 lb. garden peas seed.
 1 lb. cyanide-chloride mixture.
 1 lb. plaster of Paris.
 1 gallon, 40% formaldehyde, with jug.
 1 calf's brain, with eyes and brain intact, for demonstration.
 1 calf's heart and lungs, for demonstration.
 2 rabbits, for demonstration.
 What to Make or Collect
 The following equipment can be made or found by the stu-
dents at slight cost: insect nets, insect cages, spreading boards,
 "'Starting the Small Biological Laboratory," Peabody Journal of Education,
Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 93-98