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deals with the difficult and elusive problems lying at the foundation of
mathematical knowledge." J. W. A. Young, in Science, 1904.
Reid, George Archdall O'Brien.
Principles of heredity with some applications. 1905 575.1 R29
Addressed mainly to medical men. Utilizes especially the evidence concerning
heredity afforded by disease.
Ries, Heinrich.
Economic geology of the United States. 1905 557.3 R44
Gives briefly the main facts of the occurrence and production of economically
useful minerals. Numerous bibliographies included.
Rolfe, George William.
The polariscope in the chemical laboratory; an introduction
to polarimetry and related methods. 1905 535-5 R63
"Bibliography of the more important works of reference," p.279-283.
Introductory manual, explaining the principles of the polariscope and
their application in laboratory work in sugar making, brewing, the
starch industries and food and drug analysis.
Schillings, C. G.
Flashlights in the jungle; a record of hunting adventures
and of studies in wild life in equatorial East Africa; tr.
by Frederic Whyte, with an introduction by Sir H. H.
Johnston. 1906 599 S33
Also published under the title "With flashlight and rifle."
By a wealthy German who through love of science and adventure has
devoted much time to study of the African jungle, making with special
apparatus remarkable photographs of wild animals.
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.
Man and the earth. 1905
553 S52
Contents: Earth and man.—The future of power.—The exhaustion of
the metals.—The unwon lands.—Land from the waters.—The problem
of the Nile.—The maintenance of the soil.—The resources of the sea.
—The changes to come in the human period.—The beauty of the earth.
—The future of nature upon the earth.—The last of earth and man.
—The attitude of man to the earth; summary and conclusions.
"A general account of the tax that civilization makes on the fields it
occupies and a forecast as to their endurance of the present and prospective
demands on them."
Spiegel, Leopold.
Der stickstoff und seine wichtigsten verbindungen. 1903^546.17875
Encyclopedic summary of present (1903) knowledge of the chemistry of
nitrogen. Includes compounds with carbon.
Underhill, Charles Reginald.
Electromagnet. 1903 538.3 U25
The author calls this a new and revised edition of "Electro magnet" by
Townsend Wolcott and others.
For designers, tables and methods of calculating the electric and magnetic
circuits, the winding, etc., are given.
Vries, Hugo de.
Species and varieties; their origin by mutation; lectures
delivered at the University of California; ed. by D. T.
MacDougall. 1905 581.15 V39
English presentation of De Vries's epoch-making work, briefer than the
record in "Die mutationstheorie."
Watts, William Marshall.
Introduction to the study of spectrum analysis. 1904 535-84 W33
Elementary manual of principles and procedure. Describes applications
to astronomy and chemical analysis.
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