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National Research Council-Division of Biology and Agriculture¹

Summary of Activities, 1956–57

Representative to the National Research Council;² Associate Director, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster

ABSTRACT

Biology Council

Activities of this group have resulted in development of several important manuscripts:

Concepts in Biology

Research Structure and Support (to be published in Science)

Instrumentation in Bio-Medical Research— (NAS-NRC Publication No. 472)

Developmental Biology Conference Series (to be published in a series of volumes)

Committee on Educational Policies

Reports. Booklets on biological education at different levels are in preparation: (1) material from 130 high-school and college teachers will be used for a booklet on high-school biology, to be written during the summer and published in the fall; (2) "Improving College Biology Teaching" is ready for publication, and copies will be sent to biological departments and college and university administrators; (3) a report on graduate education will be ready by June.

Sourcebooks. More than 300 biologists have contributed over 1,300 exercises and manuals for the "Sourcebooks of Laboratory and Field Studies for College Courses in the Biological Sciences." An editorial panel set up in cooperation with the American Physiological Society is screening materials for physiology courses; the editorial panel for the introductory courses sourcebook will also screen courses.

¹ Published according to the policy stated in Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 40: 1369. 1957.

² Forward to W. E. Krauss for publication.