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a stunning blow to biology in the high school, as a kind of final knockout to the methods in vogue among high school teachers of zoology and botany.The article is all the more misleading from the fact that some of the statements made therein are true. For a truth may; if but half told and half withheld, give a false impression. The first charge made is that biology in the high school is undifferentiated from that in the college and the university, that the teacher entering the high school introduces what he has learned in the college with but few changes. This is saying more to the credit of such teachers in all probability than the writer intended. That teacher does well who strives to utilize what knowledge he has with such adaptive changes as he is able to make. His college course is all that he has in biology. He had no high school course, hitherto there was none. Biology has been obliged to work its way back into the high school from the university, and the high school teacher has not been materially aided by having his adaptive work planned by the university, nor even by the normal school. Biology has been and still is in its formative stage, precluding the idea of gradation or stratification to any great extent. It is probably the newest of the sciences which the writer had in mind; but this fact detracts nothing, since for sound pedagogical reasons which it is unnecessary to introduce here this formative stage of the science enhances its educational value and gives it a unique place in the curriculum.As to the charge that the high school laboratory is often equipped with a compound microscope, oil immersion lens, microtomes, clinostat, etc., the present writer pleads guilty. He has all these and more in his laboratory, and he is pleased by the fact that he has facilities for investigating and verifying scientific problems, and that he is not forced by lack of facilities to die at the top. Nor does it do the pupil violence that he may^get a glimpse of bacteria at some stage of his high school course, especially if his education is not to go beyond the high school. If the author inferred upon seeing this equipment in