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A Treatise on the Theory of Alternating Currents. By Alexander Russell, M.A., 

 D.Sc, M.I.E.E., Principal of Faraday House, London, Vice-President of 

 the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Vol. II. Second Edition, with 

 239 figures in the Text. Cambridge Physical Series. Cambridge : at the 

 University Press, 1916. (Pp. xiv + 566.) Price i$s. net. 



Analytical Chemistry. Based on the German Text of F. P. Treadwell, Ph.D., 

 Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich. 

 Translated and Revised by William T. Hall, S.B., Assistant Professor of 

 Analytical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vol. I. 

 Qualitative Analysis. Fourth English after the eighth German Edition. 

 New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. London : Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1916. 

 (Pp. xiii + 538.) Price 12s. bd. net. 



A Method for the Identification of Pure Organic Compounds, by a Systematic 

 Analytical Procedure Based on Physical Properties and Chemical Reactions. 

 Vol. II. Containing Classified Description of about 4,000 of the more 

 important compounds of Carbon with the elements Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and 

 Oxygen. By Samuel Parsons Mulliken, Ph.D., Associate Professor of 

 Organic Chemical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Boston, Mass. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. London : Chapman & 

 Hall, Ltd., 1916. (Pp. ix + 327.) Price 21s. net. 



On the Control of River Channels. By T. S. Ellis. Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F. C, 

 vol. xix. pt. 1, 191 5. (Pp. 29 + 48.) 



The Mechanistic Conception of Life. Biological Essays by Jacques Loeb, M.D., 

 Ph.D., Sc.D., Member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 

 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. (Agents, Cambridge 

 University Press, London.) (Pp. 232.) Price 6s. net. 



The Story of a Hare. By J. C. Tregarthen, F.Z.S. With 8 Illustrations. London : 

 John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., 191 5. (Pp. 195.) Price 2s. bd. net. 



The Life Story of an Otter. By J. C. Tregarthen, F.Z.S. With 8 Illustrations. 

 London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., 191 5. (Pp. xiii + 188.) Price 

 2 s. bd. net. 



The Contingency of the Laws of Nature. By Emile Boutroux, Member of the 

 Academie Franchise. Authorised Translation by Fred Rothwell. Chicago 

 and London : The Open Court Publishing Co., 1916. (Pp. vii + 196.) 

 Price 55. net. 



The Problems of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry of Metabolism for 

 Students, Physicians, Biologists, and Chemists. By Dr. Otto von Fiirth, 

 Professor Extraordinary of Applied Medical Chemistry in the University of 

 Vienna. Authorised Translation by Allen J. Smith, Professor of Pathology 

 and of Comparative Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia 

 and London : J. B. Lippincott Company. (Pp. xv + 667.) Price $6. 



Natural History of Hawaii. Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the 

 Geology and Geography of the Islands, and the Native and Introduced Plants 

 and Animals of the Group. By William Alanson Bryan, B.Sc, Professor of 

 Zoology and Geology in the College of Hawaii, Fellow of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science ; Member, the American 

 Ornithologists' Union ; National Geographic Society ; American Fisheries 

 Society ; Hawaiian Historical Society ; Hawaiian Entomological Society ; 



