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The Contemporary Science Series. 



Edited by Havelock Ellis. 



1 2 mo. Cloth. Price %\. 1^0 per Volume. 



I. THE EVOLUTION OF SEX. By Prof. Patrick Geddes 



"c 63 and J. A. THOMSON. With 90 Illustrations. Second Edition. 



W H " The authors have brought to the task — as indeed their names guarantee 



Ts g — a wealth of knowledge, a lucid and attractive method of treatment, and a 

 « >^ rich vein of picturesque language,." — Nature. 



It- II- ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. By G. W. de 



'% Q TUNZELMANN. With 88 Illustrations. 



(^ >> "A clearly written and connected sketch of what is known about elec- 



- tricity and magnetism, the more prominent modern applications, and the 



.2 ^ principles on which they are based." — Saturday Review. 



II III. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS. By Dr. Isaac 



^ E Taylor. Illustrated. Second Edition. 



t: C "Canon Taylor is probably the most encyclopaedic all-round scholar now 



c 2 living. His new volume on the Origin of the Aryans is a first-rate example 



^ > of the excellent account to which he can turn his exceptionally wide and 



. ^ varied information. . . . Masterly and exhaustive. " — Pall Mall Gazette. 



B-g IV. PHYSIOGNOMY AND EXPRESSION. By P. Mante- 

 ^ es GAZZA. Illustrated. 



^ 4> "Brings this highly interesting subject even with the latest researches, 



o c9 . . • Professor Mantegazza is a writer full of life and spirit, and the natural 

 M (5' attractiveness of his subject is not destroyed by his scientific handling of it." 

 ^<*- — Literary W?r/c/ (Boston). 



^>» V. EVOLUTION AND DISEASE. By J. B. Sutton, F.R.C.S. 

 w^a With 135 Illustrations. 



*^ "The book is as interesting as a novel, without sacrifice of accuracy or 



j system, and is calculated to give an appreciation of the fundamentals of 



<; "^ pathology to the lay reader, while forming a useful collection of illustrations 

 Z •• of disease for medical Tei&rtncQ."— Journal of Afental Science. 



||^ VL THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY. By G. L. Gomme. 



P O^U Illustrated. 



„ O"^ u jjjg book will probably remain for some time the best work of reference 



S WW for facts bearing on those traces of the village community which have not 



^ E E been effaced by conquest, encroachment, and the heavy hand of Roman 



HH Xz.vi."— Scottish Leader. 



>. VII. THE CRIMINAL. By Havelock Ellis. Illustrated 



•< Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 



~ "The sociologist, the philosopher, the philanthropist, the novelist — 



O all, indeed, for whom the study of human nature has any attraction — will 



^ find Mr. Ellis full of interest and suggestiveness." — Academy. 



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