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The Yearbook of the Universities of the Empire, 1914. Edited by W. I). 

 Dawson, I.C.S., and published for the Universities Bureau of the British 

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A BOOK which will be very welcome to all staffs of Universities, and heads of 

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Nature and Nurture in Mental Development. By F. W. Mott, M.D., F.R.S., 

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The Theory of Heat Radition. By Dr. Max Planck, Professor of Theoretical 

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A Manual of Practical Physical Chemistry. By Francis W. Gray, M.A., D.Sc., 

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An Introduction to the Study of Plants. By F. E. Fritsch, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S., 

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An Elementary Treatment of the Theory of Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion. 

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A Miscellany. Presented to John Macdonald Mackay, LL.D., July 1914, Liver- 

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