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NATURE 



[October 19, 1911 



E. H. Jenkins, illustrated. Herbal and Daniel. — Evolution 

 in the Past, H. W. Knipe, illustrated. Hutchinson and Co. 

 — The Flower Fields of Alpine Switzerland, G. Flemwell, 

 illustrated; The Story of Evolution, J. McCabe, illusion..] 

 Jarrold and Sons, Ltd. — Horses and Practical Horse Keep- 

 ing, !•'. T. Barton, illustrated; Farther Afield in Birdland, 

 O. G. Pike, illustrated; Wild Animals and the Camera, 

 W. P. Dando, illustrated ; My Book of Little Dogs, G. Y. 

 Stokes and F. T. Barton, illustrated ; Our Dogs and All 

 About Them, F. 1\ Barton, new edition, illustrated. John 

 Murray. — Further Researches into Induced Cell-reproduc- 

 tion and Cancer, H. C. Ross, illustrated ; The Genus 

 Rosa, E. Willmott, drawings by A. Parsons, in parts, con- 

 tinued ; Science of the Sea : an Elementary Handbook of 

 Practical Oceanography for Travellers, Sailors, and Yachts- 

 men, prepared by the Challenger Society for the Promotion 

 of the Study of Oceanography, and edited by Dr. G. 11. 

 Fowler, illustrated ; and a new edition of Recent Advances 

 in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution, R. H. 

 Lock, illustrated. Williams and Norgate. — Introduction 

 to Science, Prof. J. A. Thomson. Grant Richards, Ltd. — 

 The Complete Wildfowler Ashore and Afloat, S. Duncan 

 and G. Thorne, illustrated; The Birds of the British 

 Islands, C. Stonham, parts 19 and 20, completing the 

 work. Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd.— The Wonders of 

 Bird Life, j. Lea. Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd.— An 

 Australian Bird Book, J. A. Leach, illustrated. 



Chemistry. 



Gebruder Borntraeger (Berlin). — Chemisch-technisches 

 Praktikum, Dr. W. Moldenhauer ; Die Chemie der Cellu- 

 lose, Prof. C. G. Schwalbe ; Magnetochemie, Prof. E. 

 Wedekind, illustrated. 



Engineering. 

 Cassell and Co., Ltd.— Electrical Engineering, by H. H. 

 Simmons, in 14 parts, illustrated. Seeley, Service and Co., 

 Ltd. — The Wonders of Modern Engineering, A. Williams. 



Geography. 



Cambridge University Press.— The Climate of the Con- 

 tinent of Africa, A. Knox, illustrated; The Physical Geo- 

 graphy of South Africa, A. L. Dutoit ; Cambridge County 

 Geographies, illustrated : Buckinghamshire, Dr. A. M. 

 Davies; East London, G. F. Bosworth ; West London, 

 <.. F. Bosworth; Northamptonshire, Rev. M. W. Brown; 

 North Lancashire, Dr. J. E. Marr, F.R.S. ; Monmouth- 

 shire, H. A. Evans; The Isle of Man, Rev. J. Ouine ; 

 Oxfordshire, Rev. P. H. Ditchfield ; Dumfriesshirer Ri v. 

 Or. J. K. Hewison ; Midlothian, A. McCallum ; Perth- 

 shire, P. Macnair. John Murray. — Rambles in the 

 Pyrenees and the Adjacent Districts— Gascony, Pavs de 

 I'oix and Rousillon, F. H. Jackson, illustrated! G. Philip 

 and Son, Ltd. — Philips' New Historical Atlas for Students, 

 Prof. R. Muir; Philips' Chamber of Commerce Atlas: a 

 (.raphic Survey of the World's Trade, with a Commercial 

 Compendium and Gazetteer Index; Philips' Modern School 

 Atlas of Comparative Geography, edited by G. Philip, new 

 edition ; The Imperial Stations from Gibraltar to the Far 

 East, prepared fur the Yisual Instruction Committee of the 

 Colonial Office. Whitcombe and Tombs. Ltd.— The Geo- 

 graphy of New South Wales. Historical, Physical, Political, 

 and Commercial, Dr. Woolnough, assisted by A. W. lose, 

 G. Taylor, with introduction by Prof. '['. W. David, illus- 

 trated. 



Geology. 



Gebruder Borntraeger (Berlin). — Geologischer Fiihrer 

 durch das Mainzer Tertiarbecken, Dr. E. Mordziol, illus- 

 trated; Geologische 1 harakterbilder, edited by Prof. Stille : 

 Heft 7, Wcstgrbnland, Basalt- und Sedimentgebirge, 

 Heim; Heft S, Der Odenwald bei Heidelberg und sein 



Abbruch zur Rheinebene, by W. Spitz and W. Sal n, 



illustrated. 



MATHEM ITICAL ami PHYSIl > Sci] CI 



Cambridge University Press \n Elementan Treatise 

 on Cross-ratio Geometry, with Historical Notes, Key. J. J. 

 Milne; and new editions ol \ Primei ol Astronomy, Sir R. 

 Ball, F.R.S., illustrated; Tin- Mathematical Theorj ol 

 Electricity and Magnetism, J. II. reans, F.R.S. Hutchin- 

 NO. 2190, VOL. 87] 



son and Co. — Photography, edited by II. P. Maskel. John 

 Murray. — A New Geometry, A. E. Layng. G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons. — Star Lore of all Ages, W. 1. Olcott, 

 illustrated. Williams and Norgate. Astronomy, A. R. 

 Ilinks. 



Medical Science. 

 D. Appleton and Co. — A Text-book of Bacteriology: a 

 Practical Treatise for Students and Practitioners of 

 Medicine, P. H. Hiss, jun., and H. Zinsser; Treatise on 

 Tuberculosis, edited by A. C. Klebs ; Plastic and Cosmetic 

 Surgery, F. S. Kolle ; Clinical Symptomatology, with 

 Referem e to the Life-threatening Symptoms and their 

 Treatment, A. Pick and A. Hecht ; A Text-book of 

 Medicine for Practitioners and Students, Dr. A. V. Strum- 

 pell; A Text-book in Psychotherapy, including the History 

 of the Use of Mentrl Influence, directly and indirectly, in 

 Healing, and in the Principles for the Application of 

 Energies derived from the Mind to the Treatment of 

 Disease, J. J. Walsh. Gcbriider Borntraeger (Berlin).— 

 Pharmakognostischer Atlas, Zweiter Teil der mikro- 

 skopischen Analyse der Drogenpulver, Prof. L. Koch, 

 Band i., illustrated. Herbert and Daniel. — The Romance 

 of Modern Surgerv and its Making : a Tribute to Listerism, 

 Dr. C. W. Salee'by. /. Nisbet and Co., Lid.— Tuberculin 

 in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis, Dr. 

 W. C. Wilkinson ; The Intensive Irradiation and Wave 

 Current Treatment of Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago, 

 Neuritis, and Painful Joints, L. E. Creasy. 



Technology. 



Gebriidcr Borntraeger (Berlin). — Internationale Zeitschrift 

 fiir Metallographie, edited by Dr. W. Guertler, Band i., 

 illustrated ; Handbuch der bautechnischen Gesteinsprufung, 

 Prof. J. Hirschwald, illustrated. C. Arthur Pearson, ltd. 

 —Wires and Wireless, T. W. Corbin. Seeley, Service ami 

 Co., Ltd. — Mechanical Inventions of To-day, T. W. 

 Corbin, illustrated ; The Romance of Aeronautics, C. C. 

 Turner. John Hogg. — A new edition of Silverwork and 

 Jewellery, II. Wilson, with notes by Prof. U. Bisei, illus- 

 trated. 



Miscellaneous. 



Gebruder Borntraeger {Berlin). — Gedanken und Yor- 

 schlage zur Naturdenkmalpfiege in Hohenzollern ; Die 

 Gefahrdung der Naturdenkmaler und Yorschlage zu ihrer 

 Erhaltung, Prof. II. Conwentz, new edition. Cambridge 

 University Press. — Byways in British Archaeology, W. John- 

 son, illustrated ; Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belong- 

 ing to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum, 

 edited by R. F. Harper, parts x. and xi. John Murray.— 

 Early Norman Castles in the British Isles, E. Armitage, 

 illustrated; The Excavation of Gezer, 1002-5 and iq 

 Prof. R. A. Stewart MacAlister, 3 vols., illustrated.— Scoti 

 Publishing Company, Ltd. — The Composition of Matter and 

 the Evolution of Mind, D. Tavlor. Williams and Sorgate. 

 —Psychical Research, Prof. W. F. Barrett, F.R.S. ; The 

 Dawn of History, Prof. J. L. Myres. 



THE SCIENTIFIC MISAPPROPRIATION OF 



POPULAR TERMS. 1 

 /")NE of the main functions of the British Association is 

 ^ to prevent the development of a scientific caste in 

 this country. The essential ideas of caste and science are 

 diametrically opposed ; nevertheless, the spirit of caste has 

 in times past invaded the spirit of science, with the natural 

 consequence that the eager explorers of knowledge became 

 the academic guardians of tradition ; and the same invasion 

 now would deprive science of the popular sympathy and 

 support which are more than ever necessary for its 

 development. The members of the corresponding societies 

 have special opportunities for helping that part of the 

 Association's mission, for their personal intercourse with 

 all sections of the community enables them to do much 

 " to obtain a more general attention to the objects of 

 ." Their influence must be exerted mainly through 

 words, and the proper use of words is a matter of vital 

 importance to the welfare of science. The recent appi als 

 1 Address to the r..nferrnce of Delegates at the Portsmouth meeting of the 

 i : iti h ft 01 iation, by Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S.. chairman. 



