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Practical Experiments in Heat and Light. By W. St. B. Griffith, M.A., B.Sc, 

 and P. T. Petrie, M.Sc, A.M. Inst. C.E. London : Rivingtons, 1916. (Heat, 

 Pp. vii + 123, with 28 diagrams; Light, Pp. vii + 112, with 23 diagrams.) 

 Price, bound together in one volume, 3*. bd. net. Or in two parts— Heat, 

 2s. net ; Light, u. 6d. net. 



A book intended for use in school laboratories, and designed to be used in 

 conjunction with lectures or a textbook. It contains a good selection of 

 experiments described with full detail in simple language so that they can be 

 performed with a minimum of assistance from the master. Any teacher who 

 has not yet made a choice from the many books of this type already available 

 will probably find it repay him to examine this one. 



Theoretical Chemistry, from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule and Thermo- 

 dynamics. By Prof. Walter Nernst, Ph.D., of the University of Berlin. 

 Revised in Accordance with the Seventh German Edition. By H. T. Tizard, 

 M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. London : Macmillan & Co., St. 

 Martin's Street, 1916. (Pp. xix + 853.) Price i$s. net. 



Chemical Discovery and Invention in the Twentieth Century. By Sir William 



A. Tilden, F.R.S., D.Sc, LL.D., Sc.D., Prof. Emeritus of Chemistry in the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology. London : George Routledge 

 & Sons, Ltd., Broadway House, Carter Lane, E.C. ; New York : E. P. 

 Dutton & Co. (Pp. xvi + 487, with 150 illustrations.) Price 7s. 6d. net. 



One Hundred Chemical Problems. Suitable for University, Local and Other 

 Examinations. By E. Arthur Mason, B.Sc, Queen Mary's School, Walsall. 

 London : G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., York House, Portugal Street, Kingsway, W.C., 

 1917. (Pp. 8.) Price 6d. net. 



A Textbook of Thermochemistry and Thermodynamics. By Prof. Otto Sackur, 

 Ph.D., late of the Kgl. Friederich-Wilhelm University in Berlin. Translated 

 and Revised by G. E. Gibson, Ph.D., Instructor in Chemistry at the 

 University of California. London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., St. Martin's 

 Street, 191 7. (Pp. xvi + 439.) Price 12s. net. 



General Chemistry for Colleges. By Alexander Smith, Professor of Chemistry 

 and Head of the Department, Columbia University. Second Edition, 

 Entirely Rewritten. London : G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1916. (Pp. x + 662.). 

 Price 6s. 6d. net. 



Economic Geology. By Heinrich Ries, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Geology at 

 Cornell University. Fourth Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Enlarged. 

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

 (Pp. xviii + 856, with 291 figures and 75 plates.) Price 17s. net. 



The Rhythmic Deposition of Flint. By Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, M.R.I. A., 

 F.G.S. Extracted from the Geological Magazine, N.S., Decade VI. Vol. IV. 

 pp. 64-8, February 1917. 



A Naturalist in Borneo. By the late Robert W. C. Shelford, of Emmanuel 

 College, Cambridge, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., late Curator of the Sarawak 

 Museum and Assistant Curator of the Hope Department of Zoology, Oxford 

 University Museum. Edited, with a Biographical Introduction, by Edward 



B. Poulton, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology and Fellow 

 of Jesus College, Oxford. London : T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1916. (Pp. 

 xxviii + 331, with 32 illustrations.) Price 15^. 



Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution. By 

 Robert Heath Lock, M.A., Sc.D., sometime Fellow of Gonville and Caius 



