Excerpt from The Loose Leaf System of Laboratory Notes, for Guidance in the Dissection and Elementary Study of Animal Types Instructors in biology very generally direct the laboratory work by means of written or printed guides placed in the hands of the student. These are sometimes hastily prepared for the occasion, and come from the mimeograph or typewriter abounding in misprints and various other errors. If more carefully elaborated, the sheets furnished the student at various times are not uniform in size and will not fit in with any system of notes which he may be keeping. The Loose Leaf guides are the results of several years' experience in directing zoological work in high school and college laboratories. The sheets outlining the work on each type of animal are separate, so that they may be incorporated with the student's drawings and notes on that particular type. The recorded information on the subject is thus collected together, not only simplifying at the time the work of studying the specimen, taking notes, and indexing the drawings, but making future reference to the records an easy matter. Then, too, the laboratory guides being thus bound in with the student's notes, do not become scattered or lost. The instructor who has mastered his subject only fairly well might easily dispense with the use of a regular text book of zoology in connection with these guides. We should study things, not about things. Collateral reading assigned by the instructor and simple lectures or talks on various phases of the particular type of animal life in hand will, however, stimulate and encourage the student to investigation on his own account. The field, the brook, the woods have attractions more for the average student of zoology than any text book on the subject. But he must be so directed or trained that he will learn to see what he looks at and interpret correctly what he sees. A biological survey - classes in botany cooperating - of a small selected area is an excellent plan for developing nature students. As a matter of course, aquaria and terraria ought to form part of the equipment of every zoological laboratory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.