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DISCOVERY 



SCIENCE 



Pages of Science. Selected and edited by George 



Sampson. (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 2S.) 

 The Microscope. A practical handbook. By Lewis 



Wright. Enlarged and revised by A. H. Drew, 



D.Sc, F.R.M.S. (Religious Tract Society, 5s.) 

 English Coastal Evolution. By E. M. W.\rd, M.A. 



(Methuen & Co., Ltd., 85. bd.) 

 An informed and interesting account in moderate com- 

 pass of a somewhat neglected subject. After discussing 

 the problem generally the author describes difierent parts 

 of the coast in some detail. 

 Chemistry in the Service of the Community . By Arnold 



RowsBY Tank.\rd, F.I.C. (Benn Brothers, 15.) 



An article in praise of chemistry by the public analyst 



and bacteriologist of Hull, dealing shortly with fertilisers, 



foodstuffs, adulteration of food, chemistry in industry, etc. 



History of Chemistry. By Francis P. Venable, Ph.D., 



D.Sc, LL.D. (George G. Harrap & Co., 55.) 

 An American book, readable and accurate, but con- 

 taining the barest outline of the subject (for example, 

 one paragraph only on colloids), and consequently 

 suitable only for a first reading. 



Crystal Receivers for Broadcast Reception. By P. W. 



Harris, (is. 6d.) 

 The Wireless Telephone : What it is and How it Works. 



By P. R. CouRSEY, B.Sc. {2s. 6d.) 

 Masts and Aerial Construction for Amateurs. By F. J. 



AiNSLEY. A.M.I. C.E. (is. 6d.) 

 The Perry Auto-Time Morse System. By F. W. Perry. 

 (6d.) 



(All published by the Wireless Press, Ltd.) 

 Books for " wireless amateurs," simply and carefully 

 written and well illustrated. 



Direction and Position Finding by Wireless. By R. 



Keen, B.Eng., A.M.I.E.E. (The Wireless Press, 



Ltd., gs.) 



A monograph for the serious student, dealing not only 



with the principles of the subject, but also with such 



practical matters as constructional details, the use of 



maps, freak phenomena, the mastering of difficulties, 



and the elimination of faults. It should be of real use to 



an engineer studying this department of wireless work for 



the first time. 



Wireless Popular and Concise. By Lt.-Col. C. G. Chet- 

 WODE Crawley, R.IM.A., M.I.E.E. (Hutchinson 

 &Co., IS. 6d.) 

 The elements of the subjects put clearly by an authority. 

 Portions of the book have already appeared in Discovery 

 as articles. A good introduction to the subject. 

 The Meaning of Relativity. By Albert Einstein. 

 Translated by Prof. E. P. Adams, Princeton 

 University. (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 5s.) 

 Four lectures delivered at Princeton University 

 in May 1921, on Space and Time in Pre-Relativity 

 Physics, the Theory of Special Relativity, and the 

 General Theory of Relativity. For advanced physicists 

 and mathematicians. 



Sir, 



Correspondence 



ENGLISH PLACE-NAMES 

 To the Editor of Discovery 



I am so strongly in sympathy with the view that 

 the co-operation of topographers is essential if place-name 

 studies are to be put upon a sure basis that to prevent 

 misunderstanding I had better, perhaps, define my own 

 attitude toward the matter, which is also that of those 

 who are responsible for the Survey of English Place- 

 names. It is that no explanation of a place-name based 

 upon a study of its old forms should be offered if it is 

 inconsistent with the known topographical facts. If, 

 however, the co-operation is to be a full and just one, 

 it is equally important to recognise the converse of that 

 proposition, viz. that no explanation of a name based 

 upon topographical considerations alone can be accepted 

 if it is inconsistent with the early forms of the name. 

 I ventured to criticise Mr. Watkins's views only so far as 

 they seemed not to fulfil this second condition of place- 

 name interpretation. Yours, etc., 



Allen Mawer. 

 Director, 

 Survey of English Place-names, 



The University, Liverpool. 

 November 6, 1922. 



[This letter from Professor Mawer is a reply to a letter 

 by Mr. Alfred Watkins which appeared in the last v 

 number of Discovery. — Ed.] 



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that the discovery amongst other objects consists of " the 

 funeral paraphernalia of the Egyptian King Tutankhamen, 

 one of the famous heretic Kings of the i8th dynasty, who 

 reverted to Amen worship. Little is known of the later 

 Kings, including Tutankhamen, and the discovery should add 

 invaluably to our knowledge of this period and of the great 

 city of Tel el Amarna, which was founded in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury B.C., by Amenhotep IV, the first of the heretic Kings.'' 



No such quantity of furniture and provisions of the most 

 valuable kind, dating back to about 3.500 years, has ever 

 before been found intact. We hope to publish an account 

 of the excavations in an early subsequent number. Mean- 

 while, we can only say that it is a strange coincidence that it 

 occurred in 1922, a year which may be justly regarded as the 

 Centenary of Egyptology, for in 1822 a young Frenchman, 

 Champollion, discovered a definite clue to the interpretation 

 of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics on the famous Rosetta 

 stone, as the result of which the study of Egyptology grew 

 apace. 



CONFERENCE IN CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 

 A CONFERENCE in Classical Archaeology will be held at Oxford, 

 with the sanction of the Committee for Classical Archaeology, 

 in the Ashmolean Museum (by permission of the Visitors) 

 from January 9 to 16, 1923. Lectures, discussions, and 

 demonstrations will be held concerning Greek and Roman 

 monuments and antiquities. The fee for membership will 

 be £1. Applications for membership are received by the Hon. 

 Secretary, Mr. Stanley Casson, New College, Oxford. The 

 Conference is intended, in the first instance, for those engaged 

 in teaching. A programme of the conference and general 

 information as to accommodation %\'ill be issued later. 



