Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 52 — page 136: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION stretches of water that abound with interest, and we are left feeling that we really know these places. Much of this knowledge is new; could only have been gathered at first hand. It is refreshing to find a book on underwater activity that is not confined to over- dramatised accounts of more or less ordinary angling. Highly recommended. Among our readers, we know, are many teachers. For them, and for parents con- cerned about the education of their children, BIOLOGY _IN THE SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL by T. L. Green (Allman, 17 Creechurch Lane, London, E.C.3., 12s. 6d.) is a text full of significance. Few such teachers or parents are happy about the way in which biology is taught at present, and they are bothered about this, for biological knowledge has enormous implications for adult life, and those who do not possess it can always be picked out of a crowd. Green, who is Professor of Education at the University of Ceylon, Colombo, has studied this problem over many years and in many places. There can be little 135 doubt that he knows what he is talking about. Some of his ideas may shake the diehards to the core, but that would be a goodly thing! And we would say this: if a biology teacher is conscientious, he will buy this book. What more need be said? When the sorry business of the Piltdown Skull blew up it was realised that quite a few books needed extensive re- vision on this point. One of the first to be revised was HISTORY OF THE PRIMATES by W. E. Le Gros Clark (British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.7, 4s.) and this was appropriate since Professor Le Gros Clark had a large hand in the exposé, as did a number of people at the Museum. Now, then, we have areallyup-to-date and authoritative booklet on this subject. Anybody interested in evolution is incomplete without it. Anybody with pretensions to knowledge of Man’s ancestry is a hypocrite without it! Fully illustrated, written for the non-specialist, this book will interest all - intelligent people. comiclbooks.conm