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Methods of Measuring Temperature. By Ezer Griffiths, D.Sc. (Formerly Fellow 

 in the University of Wales), Assistant in the Heat Department of the National 

 Physical Laboratory. With an Introduction by Principal E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S. 

 London : Charles Griffin & Co., Exeter Street, Strand, W.C.2. (Pp. xi + 176, 

 with 81 illustrations.) Price &s. bd. net. 



Elements of the Electromagnetic Theory of Light. By Ludwik Silberstein, 

 Ph.D., Lecturer in Natural Philosophy at the University of Rome. London : 

 Longmans, Green & Co., 39, Paternoster Row, and New York, Bombay, 

 Calcutta, and Madras, 1918. (Pp. vii + 48.) Price $s. bd. net. 



Plant Products and Chemical Fertilisers. By S. Hoare Collins, M.Sc, F.I.C., 

 Lecturer and Adviser in Agricultural Chemistry, Armstrong College, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne (University of Durham) ; Formerly Assistant Agricultural 

 Chemist to the Government of India. London : Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 

 8, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1918. (Pp. xvi + 236.) Price 7s. bd. net. 



The Future of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Presidential Address delivered at 

 the Annual General Meeting of the Chemical Society on March 21, 1918. By 

 Prof. William Jackson Pope, C.B.E., D.Sc, F.R.S. From the Transactions 

 of the Chemical Society, 1918, Vol. CXIII. (Pp. 2.) 



Coal and its Scientific Uses. By William Bone, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.R.S., Professor 

 of Chemical Technology in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, 

 London ; Formerly Livesey Professor of Coal Gas and Fuel Industries in the 

 University of Leeds ; Honorary Member of the American Gas Institute and 

 of the Institution of Gas Engineers ; Chairman of the British Fuel Economy 

 Committee, 1915-17. London: Longmans, Green & Co, 39, Paternoster 

 Row, and New York, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, 1918. (Pp. xv + 491, 

 with illustrations.) 



Colour in Relation to Chemical Constitution. By E. R. W T atson, M.A. (Cantab.), 

 D.Sc. (London), Indian Educational Service ; Professor of Chemistry, Dacca 

 College, Bengal ; Temporary Research Chemist with British Dyes, Ltd 

 Monographs on Industrial Chemistry. Edited by Sir Edward Thorpe, C.B., 

 LL.D., F.R.S. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 39, Paternoster Row, and 

 New York, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, 1918. (Pp. xii -f 196, with 4 

 coloured plates and 65 figures of Absorption Curves, Spectra, etc.) Price 

 \is. bd. net. 



Plant Physiology. By Vladimir I. Palladin, Professor in the University of 

 Petrograd. Edited by Burton Edward Livingston, Ph.D., Professor of Plant 

 Physiology and Director of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology of the Johns 

 Hopkins University. Authorised English Edition, based on the German 

 Translation of the Sixth Russian Edition and on the Seventh Russian Edition, 

 1914. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston & Co., 10-12, Walnut Street. (Pp. xxv -f- 

 320, with 173 illustrations.) Price $3 net. 



Fundamentals of Botany. By C Stuart Gager, Director of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 10-12, Walnut Street, 

 1916. (Pp. xix ■+ 640, with 437 illustrations.) Price $1.50 net. 



Studies in Electro-Physiology, Animal and Vegetable. By Arthur E. Baines, 

 Consulting Electrician, with 31 original drawings in colour illustrating the 

 Electrical Structure of Fruits and Vegetables. By Gladys T. Baines. London : 

 George Routledge & Sons, 68-74, Carter Lane, E.C., 191 8. (Pp. xxix + 291.) 

 Price \2s. bd. net. 



Principles of General Physiology. By William Maddock Bayliss, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., Professor of General Physiology in University College, London. 

 Second Edition, Revised. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 39, Paternoster 

 Row, and New York, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, 1918. (Pp. xxiv + 858.) 

 Price 24s. net. 



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