128 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
an interest in plants, animals, and other phases of nature, that will 
last him for years to come. Coby 
BRITAIN’S HERITAGE OF ScieNcE. By Arthur Schuster and Arthur F. 
Shipley. E. P. Dutton Co. $5.00. 
This book is an attempt to present, within a moderate size volume, a 
general survey of the scientific history of the British Empire. It opens 
with a consideration of what the authors call the “ten landmarks of 
physical science’—great events such as the electrical discoveries of 
Faraday, and the founding of modern chemistry by Dalton. Each of 
the men who played important parts in ‘the creation of these “land- 
marks” receives a brief but tolerably comprehensive biographical note. 
The next section is devoted to a study of the scientific influences of 
the colleges and universities of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- 
turies, followed by a similar study of non-academic centers of scientific 
research. The progress of the physical sciences during the nineteenth 
century is reviewed in some detail, as are also the many applications 
of sciences, and the various scientific institutions. The remainder of 
the book is devoted to the history of the more strictly “natural” sciences. 
These are botany, zoology, physiology, and geology, the science of anat- 
omy being for some reason omitted. Each chapter is a more or less 
complete survey’ of one of the sciences named, and affords a concise 
and unusually comprehensive summary of its subject. 
f Cooks. ok. 
SToRY LIVES OF MEN oF SCIENCE. By F. J. Rowbotham. Stokes. 
‘This volume seems to be a reprint of an early volume. The scientists 
treated are such well-known men as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Lamarck, 
Pasteur, and Darwin. The biographical sketches are well written, and, 
if one does not have a reliable encyclopedia at hand, are worth while 
as references. The illustrations are zine etchings that have the appear- 
ance of having been made after woodcuts, and are very unsatisfactory. 
Cc. L. F., 
