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J. Newton Friend, D.Sc. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Wiirz.), F.I.C., Carnegie Gold 

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A Text-Book of Elementary Chemistry. By Alexander Smith, B.Sc. (Edin.), 

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 Chemistry of Columbia University. London : G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. ; New 

 York : The Century Co., 191 5. (Pp. x 4- 457.) Price 55. net. 



Quantitative Laws of Biological Chemistry. By Svante Arrhenius, Ph.D., M.D., 

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 Chemistry. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 191 5. (Pp. xl + 164.) Price 

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The Birth-Time of the World, and other Scientific Essays. By J. Joly, M.A., 

 Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of 

 Dublin. With 28 Plates and 15 Illustrations in the Text. London : T. Fisher 

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The Rural Science Series. Plant-Breeding. By L. H. Bailey. New Edition, 

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Biology. By Gary N. Calkins, Ph.D., Professor of Protozoology in Columbia 

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 Portugal Street, W.C. ; New York: Henry Holt & Co. (Pp. viii 4- 241.) 

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The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies. By Leland 

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 the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 191 5. (Pp. vi + 523.) 



The Antiquity of Man. By Arthur Keith, M.D. (Aberdeen), LL.D., F.RC.S. 

 (Eng.), F.R.S., Conservator of the Museum and Hunterian Professor, Royal 

 College of Surgeons of England, formerly President of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons of England, formerly President of the Royal Anthropological Insti- 

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An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Art. By Ernest A. Parkyn, M.A., 

 F.R.A.I., sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge. With 16 Plates 

 and 318 Illustrations in the Text. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 39, 

 Paternoster Row, and New York, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, 191 5. 

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Bovine Tuberculosis in Man. By B. Stenhouse Williams, M.B., B.Sc, D.P.H., 

 Research Bacteriologist in Dairying, University College, Reading, and E. H. R. 

 Harries, M.D., B.Sc, D.P.H., Tuberculosis Physician, King Edward VII. 

 Welsh National Memorial Association. Cambridge : at the University Press, 

 1915. (Pp. 14.) 



The Cures of the Diseased. In forraine Attempts of the English Nation. London, 

 1598. Reproduced in Facsimile. With Introduction and Notes by Charles 

 Singer. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1915. (Pp. 34.) Price is.bd. net. 



Rural Sanitation in the Tropics. Being Notes and Observations in the Malay 

 Archipelago, Panama, and other Lands. By Malcolm Watson, M.D., CM., 

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Geographical Aspects of Balkan Problems in their Relation to the Great European 

 War. By Marion I. Newbigin, D.Sc. (Lond.), Editor of the Scottish Geogra- 

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