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A MONTHLY REVIEW OF CURRENT SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION. 



Conducted by HENRY C. BURDETT. 



Edited by J. BRETLAND FARMER, M.A. 



WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: — 



H. E. ARMSTRONG, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute for Technical 



Education. 

 W. R. DUNSTAN, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, St. Thomas' Hospital and Pharmaceutical Society, 



London. 

 G. F. FITZGERALD, F.R.S., Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Dublin. 

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JANUARY, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



THE PLACE OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION. By H. E. ARMSTRONG, LL.D., Ph.D., 



F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of 

 Technical Education, Central Technical College ... 



RECENT WORK ON MOSSES AND FERNS. By F. O. BOWER, Sc.D., F.R.S., Regius 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow ... 



THE NEW THEORY OF SOLUTIONS (IV.). By J. W. RODGER, A.R.C.S. ... 



THE GEOLOGY OF EGYPT. By PHILIP LAKE, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge 



THE EVOLUTION OF THE THERMOMETER. By G. T. HOLLOWAY 



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I. NOTICES OF BOOKS 



II. CHEMICAL LITERATURE FOR NOVEMBER, 1895 



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