SCIENCE PROGRESS 



IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 

 SCIENTIFIC WORK AND THOUGHT 



NO. 37. JULY 1915 



CONTENTS 



1. On the Structure of the Universe. H. Spencer Jones, M.A., 



B.Sc, Royal Observatory, Greenwich 



2. Logic: A Rejoinder to Miss Stebbing. Charles Mercier, M.D., 



F.R.C.P. 



3. Carbon: Its Molecular Structure and Mode of Oxidation. 



Maurice Copisarow, M.Sc, Manchester University 



4. A Bit of Rock. George William Bettany 



5. The Role of Reductase in Tissue Respiration. Prof. D. F. 



Harris, M.D., D.Sc, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, and Prof. 

 H. J. M. Creighton, M.A., M.Sc, Swarthmore Coll., Pa. 



6. The History of Adrenalin. S. C. Bradford, B.Sc, Science 



Museum, South Kensington 



7. Some Eugenic Aspects of War. A. G. Thacker, A.R.C.Sc, 



Public Museum, Gloucester 



8. The Spinning Properties of Cotton. W. Lawrence Balls, M.A. 



9. Essay-Reviews : How the Problem of the X-Rays has been 



Solved (Prof. F. Soddy, F.R.S.)— The Organism as a 

 Thermodynamic Mechanism (Hugh Elliot)— Science and 

 the Sublime Vision : or, the Seven Against One. 



10. Recent Advances in Science : Mathematics — Astronomy — 



Physics— Chemistry— Geology— Botany— Zoology— Anthro- 

 pology 



11. Notes : Richard Lydekker -British Science Guild— War Inven- 



tions—A Letter from the Front— The Real Order of Merit- 

 Party Impolitics— and other Notes 



12. Reviews of Thirty Books : Mathematics— Physics— Chemistry 



—Geology— Palaeontology— Zoology— Botany — and Applied 

 Sciences 



EDITOR 



SIR RONALD ROSS, K.C.B., F.R.S., N.L., 

 D.Sc, LL.D., M.D., F.R.C.S. 



LONDON 

 JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 



Price 5/- net 

 vol. x 



