School Science and Mathematics, Volume 2

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School Science and Mathematics Assoc., 1903
 

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Page 79 - one of the visitors of the college. He says: "I effected during my residence in Williamsburg that year, a change in the organization of that institution, by abolishing the grammar school and the two professorships of divinity and oriental languages, and substituting a professorship of law and
Page 161 - Gross anatomy of a typical root; position and origin of secondary roots; hair-zone, cap and growing-point. Specialized and metamorphosed roots. General structure and distribution of the leading tissues of the root. The Flower. Structure of a typical flower, especially of ovule and pollen; functions of the parts. Comparative morphological study of six or more different marked
Page 163 - is of great importance, and for some topics, such as the sixth, is indispensable, though much may be done also with potted plants in greenhouses, photographs, and museum specimens. It is strongly recommended that some systematic field-work be considered as an integral part of the course, coordinate in definiteness and value as far as it
Page 162 - Although for convenience of reference, the physiological topics are here grouped together, they should by no means, be studied by themselves and apart from anatomy and morphology. On the contrary, they should be taken up along with the study of the structures in which the processes occur, and which they help to explain
Page 309 - To discover the exceptional man in every department of study whenever and wherever found, and enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work.
Page 177 - of January, nineteen hundred and four, all the departments of the Government of the United States, in the transaction of all business requiring the use of weight and measurement, except in completing
Page 161 - with the construction of transverse and longitudinal diagrams. The Fruit. Structure of a typical fruit, especially with reference to changes from the flower, and from ovule to seed. Comparative morphological study of six or more marked
Page 162 - should be studied with the leaf, as should also transpiration, while digestion may best come with germination, osmotic absorption with the root, and so on. The student should either try, or at least aid in trying, experiments to demonstrate the fundamental processes indicated above in italics. C.
Page 446 - of water in the plant; absorption (osmosis), path of transfer, transpiration, turgidity and its mechanical value, plasmolysis. Photosynthesis; Dependence of starch formation upon chlorophyll, light and carbon dioxide; evolution of oxygen,
Page 324 - of the zero, but there or thereabouts our progress is barred. This gap of 13 degrees might seem at first sight insignificant in comparison with the hundreds that have already been conquered. But to win one degree low down the scale is quite a different matter from doing so at higher temperatures; in fact, to annihilate

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