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A Treatise on Gyrostatics. By Andrew Gray, F.R.S., Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. London : Macmillan & Co., St. 

 Martin's Street, 191 8. (Pp. xx + 530..) Price 42^. net. 



An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics. By Edwin Bailey Elliot, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Purse Mathematics and Fellow of Magdalen 

 College, Oxford. Second Edition. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1913. 

 (Pp. xvi -f- 416.) Price 155-. net. 



A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook (Epoch 1920). For Students and 

 Amateurs. Covering the whole Star Sphere, and showing over 7,000 Stars, 

 Nebulas, and Clusters, with Short Descriptive Lists of Objects suitable for 

 Small Telescopes, Notes on Planets, Star Nomenclature, etc. By Arthur 

 P. Norton, B.A. London : Gall & Inglis, 31, Henrietta Street, Strand, W.C, 

 and Edinburgh, 1919. (Pp. 25.) 



A Treatise on the Sun's Radiation and other Solar Phenomena. In Continuation 

 of the Meteorological Treatise on Atmospheric Circulation and Radiation, 

 1915. By Frank H. Bigelow, M.A., L.H.D., Professor of Meteorology in the 

 U.S. Weather Bureau, 1891-1910, and in the Argentine Meteorological Office 

 since 1910. New York : John Wiley & Sons ; London : Chapman & Hall, 

 1918. (Pp. ix + 385.) Price 23*. net. 



The New Science of the Fundamental Physics. By W. W. Strong, B.S., Ph.D. 

 S.I.E.M. Co., Mechanicsburg, Pa., U.S.A., 1918. (Pp. xi + 107.) Price 



Si. 25. 



The Theory of the Relativity of Motion. By Richard C. Tolman, P.D. Berkeley: 

 University of California Press, 1918. (Pp. ix 4- 225.) 



Every Man's Chemistry : The Chemist's Point of View and his Recent Work told 

 for the Layman. By Ellwood Hendrick. London : University of London 

 Press, at St. Paul's House, Warwick Square, E.C., 1918. (Pp. x + 319) 

 Price 8s. 6d. net. 



Technical Handbook of Oils, Fats, and Waxes. By Percival J. Fryer, F.I.C., 

 F.C.S., Chief Chemist and Director, Yalding Manufactory Co., Lecturer in 

 Oils, Fats, and Waxes at The Polytechnic, Regent Street, W., and Frank E. 

 Weston, B.Sc, F.I.C., Head of the Chemistry Department, The Polytechnic, 

 Regent Street, W. Volume II., Practical and Analytical. Cambridge: at 

 the University Press, 1918. (Pp. xvi + 314, with 69 illustrations.) 



Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry. By Alfred W. Stewart, D.Sc, Lecturer 

 on Physical Chemistry and Radioactivity in the University of Glasgow, 

 formerly 185 1 Exhibition Research Scholar and Carnegie Research Fellow. 

 With an Introduction by J. Norman Collie, LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of 



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