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  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  THE 
  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES 
  VOI.. 
  12, 
  NO. 
  21 
  

  

  lists 
  we 
  could 
  name 
  twenty-five 
  scientific 
  books 
  which 
  would 
  be 
  almost 
  

   certain 
  to 
  interest 
  keenly 
  any 
  given 
  individual. 
  Lacking 
  such 
  pro- 
  

   vision, 
  we 
  can 
  only 
  hope, 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  the 
  very 
  general 
  list 
  herewith 
  

   submitted, 
  that 
  every 
  reader 
  who 
  can 
  be 
  induced 
  to 
  read 
  anything 
  

   at 
  all 
  serious 
  will 
  find 
  on 
  the 
  list 
  a 
  few 
  books 
  which 
  appeal 
  to 
  him 
  

   strongly, 
  and 
  that 
  none 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  books 
  will 
  give 
  him 
  the 
  impression 
  

   that 
  science 
  makes 
  reading-matter 
  which 
  is 
  difficult 
  or 
  forbidding. 
  

  

  BOOKS 
  DROPPED 
  FROM 
  THE 
  PRELIMINARY 
  EDITION 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  books, 
  which 
  were 
  in 
  the 
  preliminary 
  list 
  published 
  

   in 
  September, 
  1921, 
  have 
  been 
  dropped 
  for 
  reasons 
  briefly 
  indicated: 
  

  

  Abbott, 
  C. 
  C. 
  Upland 
  and 
  meadow. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Abney, 
  W. 
  de 
  W. 
  Colour 
  measurement 
  and 
  mixture. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  Not 
  

   well 
  adapted 
  for 
  popular 
  reading. 
  • 
  

  

  Adolfo 
  Stahl 
  lectures 
  in 
  astronomy. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Ames, 
  J. 
  S. 
  The 
  constitution 
  of 
  matter. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Ball, 
  R. 
  S. 
  Time 
  and 
  tide. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Bennett, 
  L. 
  F. 
  Rocks 
  and 
  minerals. 
  A 
  manual, 
  not 
  a 
  book 
  adapted 
  for 
  

   reading. 
  

  

  Buckley, 
  A. 
  B. 
  Life 
  and 
  her 
  children. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Cole, 
  G. 
  A. 
  J. 
  The 
  changeful 
  Earth. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Cornish, 
  V. 
  Waves 
  of 
  the 
  sea 
  and 
  other 
  water 
  waves. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Darwin, 
  C. 
  The 
  formation 
  of 
  vegetable 
  mould 
  through 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  worms. 
  

   Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Dickson, 
  H. 
  N. 
  Climate 
  and 
  weather. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  DwERRYHOUSE, 
  A. 
  R. 
  Geology. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Gratacap, 
  L. 
  p. 
  a 
  popular 
  guide 
  to 
  minerals. 
  A 
  manual, 
  not 
  adapted 
  

   for 
  reading. 
  

  

  Haddon, 
  a. 
  C. 
  The 
  study 
  of 
  Man. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Hale, 
  G. 
  E. 
  The 
  study 
  of 
  stellar 
  evolution. 
  Out 
  of 
  print 
  and 
  replaced 
  by 
  

   a 
  later 
  book 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  author. 
  

  

  Harrington, 
  M. 
  W. 
  About 
  the 
  weather. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  HeadlEy, 
  F. 
  W. 
  Problems 
  of 
  evolution. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Herrick, 
  F. 
  H. 
  Home 
  life 
  of 
  wild 
  birds. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  KiDD, 
  D. 
  Savage 
  childhood. 
  A 
  study 
  of 
  Kafir 
  children. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  LoTSY, 
  J. 
  P. 
  Evolution 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  hybridization. 
  Considered 
  by 
  some 
  

   to 
  be 
  too 
  specialized 
  for 
  popular 
  reading. 
  Also 
  difficult 
  of 
  importation, 
  

   being 
  a 
  Continental 
  book. 
  

  

  Lubbock, 
  J. 
  Flowers, 
  fruits 
  and 
  leaves. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  MiCHELSON, 
  A. 
  A. 
  Light 
  waves 
  and 
  their 
  uses. 
  Out 
  of 
  print. 
  

  

  Peckham, 
  S. 
  W., 
  and 
  Peckham, 
  E. 
  G. 
  Wasps, 
  social 
  and 
  solitary. 
  Out 
  

   of 
  print. 
  

  

  