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ADDITIONS—JULY 1913 33i
Saulez, William Hely. 492.4 S25
Romance of the Hebrew language. 1913. Longmans.
"Books consulted," p.9-12.
Students of the Bible and intending students of Hebrew will find this little book
full of valuable information. Mr Saulez describes the salient features of the Hebrew
language, notes the curiously pictorial construction of its sentences and makes clear
many obscure passages in the Old testament.
Science
Delage, Marie Yves, & Goldsmith, Marie. 575 D38
Theories of evolution; tr. by Andre Tridon. [1912.] Palmer.
Interesting presentation and estimate of the work and theories of Darwin, Weismann,
Naegeli, De Vries, Roux, Galton, Mendel, Lamarck and others. Particular attention
and favor are shown to Lamarckism.
Estabrook, Arthur Howard, & Davenport, C. B. qr 575.6 E85
The Nam family; a study in cacogenics. 1912. (Eugenics Record
Office. Memoir no.2.)
"Literature cited," p.85.
Careful study in heredity and social characteristics of "a highly inbred rural community
of New York State." The descendants of the family studied were characterized
by alcoholism and lack of ambition.
Francis, Mary Evans. q 584.9 F86
Book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses and
the most common of the rushes and sedges. 1912. Doubleday.
Tlie same qr 584.9 F86
Non-technical descriptions and key to identification. Confined to the region east
of the Mississippi river from Canada southward to Virginia.
Hertwig, Richard. 590 H48m
Manual of zoology; third American from the ninth German edition;
tr. and ed. by J. S. Kingsley. Ed.3 [rev.]. 1912. Holt.
Excellent text-book for beginners.
Kingsley, John Sterling. 59M K27
Comparative anatomy of vertebrates. 1912. Blakiston.
"Bibliography," p.355-380.
Thorough and well arranged text-book, with considerable attention to histology and
embryology.
Loeb, Jacques. 576-15 L76
Mechanistic conception of life; biological essays. 1912. University
of Chicago Press.
Contents: The mechanistic conception of life.—The significance of tropisms for
psychology.—Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative
physiology of the central nervous system.—Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism
of vision.—On some facts and principles of physiological morphology.—On the
nature of the process of fertilization.—On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial
parthenogenesis).—The prevention of the death of the egg through the act of fertilization.—The
role of salts in the preservation of life.—Experimental study of the influence
of environment on animals.
On the application of physical chemistry to biology. Describes author's own pioneer
experiments.
Low, David Allan. 5*3 L95
Practical geometry and graphics. 1912. Longmans.
Concerned not so much with the educational value of the subject as with its application
to engineering problems in the drafting room.
"Excellent attempt to co-ordinate mathematics and drawing work. .. Professor Low
has succeeded in compressing an immense amount of information into a comparatively
small space, without. . .making any sacrifice of clearness." Engineering, 1913.