In 1963, the biology department at Jamaica High School in Queens, New York, published this pamphlet for its students. Forty-two laboratory exercises are described. These include observations with a microscope, dissection of a frog, and study of digestion, blood circulation, respiration, and reproduction. Other units concern evolution. The final exercise is a campus field trip. Each section sets a problem, describes procedures for solving it, and has a series of summary questions. There are scattered illustrations done by students at the school. The cover shows a compound microscope and nerve cells.
Teresa E. Fusco Nugent (1924-2013), the donor, studied in biochemistry at St. John’s University, earned a M.A. in bacteriology, and became a research scientist at Charles Pfizer. She later taught biology at Mary Louis Academy in Jamaica, N.Y., and biology at Benjamin Cardoza High School.
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