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STANDARD METHODS OF THE DIVI- 

 SION OF LABORATORIES AND RE- 

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 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. General 

 Laboratory Procedures and the Methods Used 

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 ment; the Antitoxin, Serum, and Vaccine 

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 Executive Offices. 

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Dr. Wadsworth's laboratory in Albany- 

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 the organization of the Division of Labo- 

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THE LION-HEARTED KITTEN and other 

 Stories. 



By Peggy Bacon. The Macmillan Co. 



$2.. 00 5^ x 8§; 102. New York 



This is an entertaining contribution to 

 the Higher Biology. The drawings are 

 superb. The tales which go with them 

 are not quite so distinguished, but still 

 there are high points, as, for example, the 

 solemn discussion between the giraffe and 

 the woodpecker, who had mistaken the 

 former's neck for a tree trunk, as to 

 whether the giraffe was a tree or not. This 

 is a book to be read aloud in every biolo- 

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ACUTE RHEUMATISM IN CHILDREN 

 IN ITS RELATION TO HEART DISEASE. 

 Reports on Public Health and Medical Sub- 

 jects No. 44. 

 Ministry of Health. 



H. M. Stationery Office 

 is 6d. 6§ x 9! ; xii -f- 99 London 



This is a report of a study by several 

 officers of the British Ministry of Health 

 on the bacteriology, incidence, and in- 

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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF 

 SCIENCE. Vol. I. From Homer to Omar 

 Khayyam. Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton Publication No. 3-76. 

 By George S art on. 



The Williams & Wilkins Co. 

 $10.00 7 x 10; xi + 839 Baltimore 

 The reputation of George Sarton in 

 the field of the history of science has been 

 firmly established by his journal Isis. 

 We now have the first volume of what 

 must for a long time be the master-work 

 in the history of science, if it is completed 

 along the lines laid down in this begin- 

 ning. The ordinary man would be over- 

 whelmed by the colossal nature of the task 

 outlined. But Dr. Sarton cheerfully con- 

 templates the preparation of six more 

 volumes, each of the order of this one, as 

 necessary to lay the preliminary founda- 

 tions upon which alone a sound history 

 of science may be written! May God 

 spare him for his labor! For it is good. 

 The present volume covers the period from 

 Homer to Omar Khayyam, that is to say 



