Kansas University quarterly . PLATE XXX. Eryops megacephalus 1.—Left 2, 2a.—Undetermined bone. Half natural EDITORIAL NOTES. The writer has been convinced for some time that purely laboratory methodshave been carried to an extreme in many institutions in biological instruction;the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction from purely didactic in-struction. Systematic biology is, after all, the highest expression of zoology orbotany, and to completely ignore such must result in an imperfect and faultytraining. A minute knowledge of a few types of the a
Kansas University quarterly . PLATE XXX. Eryops megacephalus 1.—Left 2, 2a.—Undetermined bone. Half natural EDITORIAL NOTES. The writer has been convinced for some time that purely laboratory methodshave been carried to an extreme in many institutions in biological instruction;the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction from purely didactic in-struction. Systematic biology is, after all, the highest expression of zoology orbotany, and to completely ignore such must result in an imperfect and faultytraining. A minute knowledge of a few types of the animal or plant kingdom isnot zoology or botany, but morphology, and morphology cannot replace zoologyor botany. Furthermore, many teachers lose sight of the fact that all students arenot seeking to become specialists, and require altogether too much time spent inthe study of methods. A recent text-book by Professor Kingsley * seems to thewriter to be a praiseworthy advance in the teaching of its department of author recognizes what is emphatically true, that laboratory observationand facts are not science. It is utterly i
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