By A. R. HINKS, M.A., Chief Assistant, Cambridge
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32. _INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE_
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History, Aberdeen University. “Professor Thomson’s delightful
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easily on the methods Of science and its relations with philosophy,
art, religion, and practical life.”--_Aberdeen Journal._
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President of the Royal Meteorological Society. (With Diagrams.)
“The author has succeeded in presenting in a very lucid and
agreeable manner the causes of the movements of the atmosphere and
of the more stable winds.”--_Manchester Guardian._
41. _ANTHROPOLOGY_
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Oxford University. “An absolutely perfect handbook, so clear that a
child could understand it, so fascinating and human that it beats
fiction ‘to a frazzle.’”--_Morning Leader._
44. _THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY_
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stamped the impress of a creative imagination.”--_Glasgow Herald._
46. _MATTER AND ENERGY_
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accomplished the very difficult task of making physics of absorbing
interest on popular lines.”--_Nature._
49. _PSYCHOLOGY, THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOUR_
By Prof. W. MCDOUGALL, F.R.S., M.B. “A happy example of
the non-technical handling of an unwieldy science, suggesting
rather than dogmatising. It should whet appetites for deeper
study.”--_Christian World._
53. _THE MAKING OF THE EARTH_
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contained in the series this takes a high place.”--_The Athenæum._
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Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons. (Illustrated.) “It
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high place among the classics of popular science.”--_Manchester
Guardian._
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Engineering in the University of Birmingham. (Illustrated.) “It
will be appreciated greatly by learners and by the great number of
amateurs who are interested in what is one of the most fascinating
of scientific studies.”--_Glasgow Herald._
62. _THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE_
By Dr BENJAMIN MOORE, Professor of Bio-Chemistry,
University College, Liverpool. “Stimulating, learned,
lucid.”--_Liverpool Courier._
67. _CHEMISTRY_
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