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SLIDE SOURCE LIST (Continued) 6. Cai.ichrome Slidk Agencv, Austin W. Morrill, Manager, 460 West Longden Avenue. Arcadia, California, has about 950 plant and animal subjects, photographed by Dr. Vesta Holt and Dr. Lloyd G. Ingles. The animals include mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and a few fish. While the plants and many of the animals were photographed in the west, their range, or that of closely related species, would extend eastward in many cases. The catalog for the plant slides lists them according to habitat and association types. 7. Clay-Adams Company, Inc., 44 East 23rd Street, New York 10, N. Y., produces thousands of slides for teaching in the medical, nursing, and biological sciences. They consist of photomicrographs, usually in color. Examples of the fields covered are "Neuroanatomy," "Neuropathology," etc. This company is preparing a comprehensive series of slides on the general biological sciences as taught at college level, some of which could fit into secondary school teaching. None were viewed. 8. Coronet Magazine, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 11, Illinois. The general sales manager states, "Kodachrome slides of the color illustrations featured in Coronet Magazine since .'\ugust, 1946, will be continuously available. All orders or inquiries should be sent to the Society for Visual Education, Inc." (listed here in alphabetical order). The .set on the Paracutin Volcano was viewed. 9. CoUNCii, ON Dentai, Health, 222 East Superior Street, Chicago, II, Illinois, rents or sells over 600 slides on the care, development, eruption, repair of teeth, etc. Nearly all slides are in color. None were viewed. 10. Denoyer-Geppert Company, 5235 Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago 40, Illinois, has a large collection of Kodachrome and black and white slides on plants and animals, geology, health, portraits of scientists, and maps, including the individual states •of this country. 11. General Biological Supply Hou.se, 761-763 East 69th Place, Chicago 37, Ilhnois, has over 2,000 slides (sold under the Turtox trade name) on plants and animals, mostly in Kodachrome. The catalog is very attractive and gives evidence of much care in scientific grouping and labeling of species. The series runs from plants and animals of the lower orders to those of the highest. The animal slides include a large number on reptiles and amphibians ; also many on birds, these last being photographs of mounted birds from the display collection of the Chicago Natural History Museum. A small number of the bird slides were viewed. While they show mounted rather than live birds, the positions were natural, the colors bright, and details clear. 12. Iowa State Department oe Historv and Archives. Museum Division, Des Moines, Iowa, has loan collections of slides on North .'American wildfiowers, mammals, birds, and a miscellaneous nature collection on plants and animals. The slides are loaned as a general rule for circulation within the state. None were viewed. 13. Long Filmsi.iue Service, 944 Regal Road, Berkeley 8, California, has 14 outline maps on which physical characteristics, some political boundaries, and established world capitals are indicated but unnamed. None were viewed. 14. National Audubon Society, Audubon House, 1000 Fifth Avenue. New York 28, N. Y.. is a source for slides on birds, some of which are photographs of living birds and some of which are photographs of the .\llan Brooks' bird paintings. The reproductions lack, in general, the high degree of reality of photographs of living birds but might be useful to showfield markings. 15. Nksbit, Paul W., Moraine Park Road, Estes Park, Colorado, is a source of slides on western .scenery, plants, and animals. His series on the beaver is especially good. 16. Ohio State .Xrcjiaeologkal and Historical Society. Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio, list sets on birds, vertebrates, fishes, plants, flowers, insects, disapi)earing and other animals, and Indian mounds. These are loan collections, for use in Ohio schools only. None were vieweu. 17. Popular Science Publlsiung Company, Inc., Audio\isual Division, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, N. Y., has 31 slides in a series entitled "Outdoor Life's Gallery of North .American Game." The series shows 31 paintings by Frances Lee J agues of 19 mammals and 12 game birds. .\ teaching manual gives a few lines of information on each slide. None were viewed. 18. Projection Slide Company, 210 Commercial Building, .San Jose, California, has sets on Yellowstone Park and Lick Observatory. 19. Radex Stereo Company, 111 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles 36, California, is a source of slides on cacti, orchids, butterflies, and western national jiarks and monuments. None were viewed. 20. Society for \'isual Education, Inc., 100 East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, Illinois, lists several thousands of slides in its Science catalog on plants, animals, geology, meteorology, physics, useful arts, and medical and technical subjects. It also handles Kodachrome slides of the color illustrations featured in Coronet Magazine. 21. Standefer Company, 690 Market Street, San Francisco 4, California, has purchased the We.sco color slide division from Western Movie Supply Comi)any of San Francisco and Hollywood. There are pictures of flowers and many scenic views, such as mountains, lakes, waterfalls, and .\laskan glaciers, which could be useful for teaching earth science. 22. Tatum, Brooking, of Kelseyville, California, lists over 700 Kodachromes of the natural history of the Pacific states. About 400 of these are studies of the native flora ; the remainder comprises ecological, environmental, scenic, and geological material. There is also a small number of slides on the native vertebrates. Over 300 of the flora slides were viewed and found to be of excellent quality. In addition, the catalog put out to accom|lar»y the slides has been done with a high degree of scientific care. Both common and scientific names are giveiL In addition, the sice of the flowers and plants and all the important plants in each slide are labeled. 23. Travelore Films, 758 North University .Avenue, Provo, Utah, has travel slides which might be useful in teaching earth science, such as the one showing the Greenland ice cap, those on .Maskan glaciers, etc. None were viewed. 24. Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc., P. O. Box 24, Beechwood Station, Rochester, N. Y., has about 600 slides on botany, birds, insects, marine invertebrates, embryology, mineralogy, and crystallographic microscopy. New sets are being added on birds and wild flowers. This collection is of great importance because the slides are in well-organized sets, are scientifically accurate, and are u.sually accompanied by a well-planned teaching manual. .An example of a set which well exemplifies these qualities is the one on Tree Flowers. Over 500 of this company's slides were seen. 25. We.stern Picture Sekvu e, 2174 Northeast Multnomah, Portland 12, Oregon, lists sonic slides on scenery in Oregon and Washington which might be useful. None were viewed. 26. Wiley, John, and Sons, Inc.. 440 F'ourth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y., lists 450 slides : 250 on physical geology and 200 on general psychology. .A comprehensive set on historical geology is being prepared. These sets were prepared to accompany textbooks published by the Wiley Company but may be purchased separately. Only two of the slides were viewed. 27. WiLNER Films and Slides, P. O. Box 231, Cathedral Station, New York 25, N. Y., has 125 slides oii "The Story of the Gems," which shows where and how gems are found, their physical properties, the cutting of cabachons, the cutting of facets, etc. A 6,00()-word lecture manual accompanies the slides. Dr. J. Daniel Willems. a Chicago surgeon who is assiK-iated with Wilner Films, has written a book entitled "Gem Cutting." 28. Young .America Films, Inc., 18 East 41st Street. New York 17, N. Y., lists the .Audubon bird slides (reproductions of the .Allen Brooks' bird iiaintings) which arc also sold by the National .Audubon Societv. 302 Educaflonal Screen