J. Daley (James Daley) McDonald

James Daley McDonald, usually listed as J. Daley McDonald, was born in 1892. The clearest records available here identify him as the author of Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools, a work submitted to the School of Education at the University of California in 1921 and later made widely available through Project Gutenberg.

That book shows McDonald thinking carefully about what makes a strong biology teacher. He argued for solid subject knowledge, better professional preparation, and teaching methods suited to real classrooms rather than rote textbook use. The work has the feel of a scholar trying to raise standards in science education at a time when formal teacher training was still developing.

McDonald is also credited with On Balantidium coli (Malmsten) and Balantidium suis (sp. nov.), published by the University of California Press in 1922 and described as a Ph.D. thesis. Together, these works suggest a writer whose interests bridged biology research and the training of future science teachers. Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year were not clearly confirmed in the sources reviewed.