LIBRARY OF MODERN SCIENCES 



A popular series treating their influence on the development 



of civilization 



EDITORS 



Edwin E. Slosson, Ph.D. 

 Editor, Science Service, author of "Creative Chemistry." 



M. LucKiESH, M.S. H. E. Howe, M.S. 



Director, Lighting Research Editor, Industrial and Engi- 



Laboratory, National Lamp neering Chemistry. 



Works of General Electric Co. 



CHEMISTRY IN MODERN LIFE, by Svante Arrhenius, 

 Director of the Nobel Institute, translated by Clifford S. 

 Leonard, Fellow National Research Council: Department of 

 Pharmacology, Yale University. 



THE SOIL AND CIVILIZATION, by Milton Whitney, Chief 

 of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE, by M. Luckiesh, 

 Director, Lighting Research Laboratory, National Lamp Works 

 of General Electric Company. 



ANIMALS OF LAND AND SEA, by Austin Clark, Curator 



of the Smithsonian Institution. 



THE EARTH AND THE STARS, by C. G. Abbot, Assistant 

 Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



IN PREPARATION: 



THE MYSTERY OF MIND, by Leonard Troland, Professor 

 of Physics and Psychology, Harvard University. 



CHEMISTRY IN THE WORLD'S WORK, by H. E. Howe, 

 Editor, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 



SCIENCE AND INVENTION, by Alfred J. Lotka, Professor, 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



