SCIENCE PROGRESS 



A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF 

 SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT, WORK & AFFAIRS 



No. 59. JANUARY 1921 4^ 



CONTENTS 



RECENT ADVANCES IN SCIENCE : Mathematics (D. I^Wpiheh) 

 —Astronomy (H. Spencer-Jones)— Meteorology (E. V. Newnham) 

 —Physics (F. I. Peirce)-Physical Chemistry (W. E. Garner)— 

 Orgranic Chemistry (P. Haas, D.Sc.)-Botany (E. J. Salisbury, 

 D.Sc.)-Plant Physiology (Prof. W. Styles)— Anthropology (A. G. 

 Thaeker)— Medicine (R. M. VTilson). p. 345 



ARTICLES: The Inheritance of Acquired Characters (Prof. E. W^. 

 MacBride, F.R.S., D.Sc.)— A Review of Recent Work: on Enzyme 

 Action (R. J. S. McDowall, M.B.)— The' Cytological Problems 

 Arising" from the Study of Artificial Parthenogenesis 

 (D. Ward Cutler, M.A.). p. 392 



POPULAR SCIENCE : The Soya-Bean Problem (D. M. Adkins, 

 B.Sc). p. 445 



NOTES: W^illiam Cra^wford Gorgas (Sir Ronald Ross)— The 

 Nobel Prizes— The V - i— Scorbutic Cooking (R. Ross)— British 

 Microscopes and Microtomes— British Association, Section 

 A (A. O. Rankine, D.Sc.)— British School . of Archaeology in 

 Egypt (Prof. W^. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S.)— Mount Everest- 

 Dead Darwinism— The Percentage of Liars— Notes and News 

 —and other Notes. p. 452 



CORRESPONDENCE : Starvation Pay, of Brain-W^orkers (F. H. 

 Perrycoste, B.Sc). p. 478 



ESSAYS : The Function cf the Nucleolus in the Life of the Animal 

 Cell (J. Bronte Gatenby, B.Sc). p. 480 



ESSAY-REVIEW^S : Evidences of Mediumistic Phenomena (O. L. 

 Brady, D.Sc). p. 483 



REVIEWS: Limits and Fluxions from Newton to Woodhouse— 

 Combinatory Analysis -Matter and Motion— Margarine— 

 The Phase Theory— Carbohydrates and Alcohol— Chemical 

 Fertilisers and Parasiticides— Geology of India for Students 

 —Natural Wealth of Britain— Steel Works Materials— Weeds 

 of Farm Land— Sea Fisheries— The Heron of Castle Creek- 

 Psychiatry in Peace and War— Psycho-Analysis— Microscopy 

 —and other Reviews. p. 486 



EDITOR 



SIR RONALD ROSS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., N.L. 



ASSISTED BY 



D. ORSON WOOD, M.Sc, A.R.C.Sc, and 

 J. BRONTfi GATENBY, B.A., B.Sc, D.Phil. 



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