SCIENCE PROGRESS 



A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF 

 SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT, WORK & AFFAIRS 



No. 43. JANUARY 191 7 

 CONTENTS 



ARTICLES: Scientific Parliamentary Reform. W. H. Cowan, M.P. 

 A Theory of Colour Vision. R. A. Houstoun, D.Sc. 

 The Jaw of the Piltdown Man. W. P. Pycraft, F.Z.S., A.L.S. 

 What is a Disease ? (in part). Dr. Charles Mercier 

 La Doctrine Soeiologique d'Emile Waxweiier. N. Ivanitsky 

 and F. Van Langenhove 



POPULAR SCIENCE : The Oldest Flint Implements. J. Reid Moir 



ESSAY-REVIEW : The Sister of Science (Sir Ronald Ross) 



RECENT ADVANCES IN SCIENCE: Philosophy (H. Elliot- 

 Mathematics (P. E. B. Jourdain)— Astronomy (H. S. Jones)— 

 Physics (J. Rice)— Physical Chemistry (Prof. W. C. MeC. Lewis) 

 —Inorganic Chemistry (C. S. Garrett)— Geology (G. W. Tyrrell) 

 —Anthropology (A. G. Thacker) 



CORRESPONDENCE: Maleducation and Malpronunciation (Sir 

 Bryan Donkin), and Reply 



NOTES : Poem (John Masefleld)-The Nobel Physics Prizes, 1915 

 (D. O. W.)— Scientific Snobbery — Neglected Discoveries — The 

 Weakness of Committee Government — A Criticism of the 

 Financial Operations of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities 

 of Scotland (Prof. F. Soddy, F.R.S.)— The British Association 

 Meeting, 1916 (C. H. O'D.)— This and That-and other Notes 



ESSAYS : The Theory of Integral Equations and the Calculus of 

 Operations and Functions (Dr. H. Bateman)— Humanistic 

 Culture through the Study of Science (G. N. Pingriff) 



REVIEWS: Boole's Works on Logic— The History of Mathe- 

 ' matics— Non-Euclidean Plane Geometry and Trigonometry— 

 Hadamard's Lectures on Mathematics— Statistical Works— 

 The Birthrate— Physical Chemistry— Minerals and Rocks- 

 Fauna of the Malay Peninsula— Natural History of Hawaii 

 —Otters and Hares— Men of the Old Stone Age— Ammonia- 

 Engineering— New Psychiatry— X-Rays and Stereoseopy— Milk 

 —Brewing Practice— Manuring 



EDITOR 



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

 D.Sc, LL.D., M.D., F.R.C.S. 



LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 



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