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eiple." That the author cannot justify the attitude of Lavoisier toward the work of Priestley is shown by such statements as "He was indebted to Priestley and would not admit his indebtedness." The hook contains few errors. The student of this period of the history of chemistry will find the book to be of great assistance. V. F. PAYNE
DECEMBER, 1930
to be used in connection with a course in advanced composition for students of science and technology. That being the case, i t is natural that they should have chosen essays only by English-writing thinkers. A number of meat men who have thought about the abstract relations of science are therefore not represented. The editors have chosen only recent pieces of writinp. They ought to have included TUNsuLv**rr C O L L B ~ ~ a t least one of the essays of Charles LBXINOTON, KY. Peirce. The reviewer wishes that someScience and the Scientific Mind. LEO thing from early English writers had also E. SAInLn, Assistant Professor of been included, if only for the purpose of Endish, Polytechnic Institute of Brook- showing to students that profound thinklyn; and W-EN E. GIBBS.Instructor ing on the what and the whither of science in English. Columbia University, and did not first occur in the nineteenth cenLecturer in English, Polytechnic In- tury, selections from Francis Bacon and stitute of Brooklyn, Evening Division. from Sir Thomas Brawne, for example. The twenty-four essays are grouped First edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York Clty and under the headings: I. Science; 11. The ScientSc Mind; 111. Scientific Motive; 506 pp. 13.8 X London, 1930. xiv IV. Science and Culture; V. Science and 20.3 cm. $3.00. Civilization; and VI. Science and the This book is a collection of twenty-four Future. The following named authors essays on science and the method of are repmented: ROBERTANnREWS MILscience, on science in the affairs of men's LIKAN (1 essay). FREDERICK BARRY (1 minds, on science in its relation-not essay). J o m TYNDALL (2 essays), EDWIN here to the practical life of our timesE. S ~ o s s o(I), ~ J. W. N. SULLIVAN (3). but in its relation to the background of THOMAS HENRYHUXLEY(2), WINTERTON our thought, on science as the totality of C. CURTIS (2). ARTHURS C ~ S T E (I), R our positive knowledge, our heritage HENRYFAmIELD OSBORN (I), TRUMAN from the past and our motive toward the L. KELLEY(I), NATHANIEL SEALER(1). future. Here is fine and thought-pro- FREDERICK SODDY(1). BERTRAND RUSvaking writing: John Tyndall on "The SELL (I), J. W. MACKAIL (I), J. S. HALScientific Use of the Imagination," DANE (1). MICHAEL PUPIN(I), GEOROE E. Thomas Henry Huxley on "Science and W o o n ~ ~ n n(I), v THORSTEIN VEBLEN(I), Culture." and Bertrand Russell on "The and FREDERICKS. MARVIN(1). The Place of Science in a Liberal Education." b m k has four appendiwi: .I. Suggestions Every sincere student of the order of for the Study of thc Structure of no E ~ s a y ; things is probably acquainted with some B . Topics for Oral or Written Discusof the essays which are brought together sion and Reports; C. Reading List; in this volume. But i t would be a rare and D. Biographical Notes. library which would contain them all. This is a book to read and to possess. And the present collection will interest to put aside on the shelf-and to read any one, whether teacher or student, again. whether scientific investigator or not, TENNBY L. DAVIS who wishes for an insight into that part of M*SS*CH"SBTTSINS"TUTB OF T G C I N O L O D Y c*asnroas. M*ss*cxuserrs science which transpires after the data have been collected. The editors state in the preface that The Condensed Chemical Dictionary. they have intended the book for a text Compiled and edited by the Editorial
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Staff of the Chemical Engineering Catalog. Second edition revised and enlarged under the supervision of T n o m s C. GREGORY,Editov, and ISABELLE M . WELCH.Assistant Editor. The Chemical Catalog Company, New York City. 1930. 551 pp. 15.5 X 23 cm. $10.W (buckram). In this edition the authors have attempted not only to correct and enlarge the list of words found in the first edition, but to broaden the scope of the book so as ta include precesses of manufacture, physical and chemical properties, as well as to give additional uses and shipping regulations of the materials. There is no question but that they have succeeded admirably in these respects. The reviewer recognizes that this book fills a definite need which no other book supplies so well. On the other hand i t is not a chemical dictionary in the ordinary sense, and its title is misleading. If a chemist is t o be considered a man back of a drug counter compaund'mg remedies of all sorts, then this book is a chemical dictionary. Since the science has evolved from this stage the hook should rather be entitled a glossary of pharmacological and chemical trade names. This assertion is supported by the fact that, of the 512 words listed an 20 pages chosen a t random, only 182 were chemical compounds with definite composition. In the "Dictionary" are described words like a h a marina, aralia, orchit, amber seed, angelica tree, azle grease, hydrargyri sulphes ethylenediaminato, sarsaparilla, bissebol, butee gum, chrysoprme, chittern bark. etc. The book describes a few manufacturing proce.;ar* such a the manulacture of alass, nlue, soav, ink, etc., i f the elecand includes f u des&iptions ~ troplating pnxesses with cadmium, copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and zinc, but omits those of silver, gold, and platinum. A large number of rather uncommon words such as pyrocateckolcctodimethylnminophenyldimethypy~~oloneare found hut many common ones like dry ice, pectin, Duco. Sclenesr. Formica. and
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fluosilicic acid are missing. Some descriptions are antiquated, such as the derivation of helium, and same formulas are erroneous, such as those ascribed to diamino diphenyl urea and phenyl propiolic acid. Both chloral and chloral hydrate arecalled trichloroacetic aldehyde. In the Appendix will be found 46 tables of constants of various sorts, but these h a w no alphahcricnl armngcmrnt. S o t only the tradesman and technologist but the teacher of chemistry will find this book a useful reference work. C. A. JACOBSON
Popular Science Talks-Season of 1929. Volume VII. Presented by the Members of the Faculty of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, edited by Ivon GR~BITH.Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science, Philadelphia. Pa., 1930. 358 pp. 15.5 X 23 cm. $1.50. "These lectures are g i annually ~ ~ by members of the faculty of the college and cover a broad and interesting field of scientific subjects. They are not arranged in a course covering any particular field of science, nor is there any interdependence or connection. They are presented in a non-technical, easily understandable farm, but without the sacrifice of scientific accuracy or completeness." I n "The Modem Sun Cult" by J. W. STURMER, there is discussed the absorption of ultra-violet light through glass, atmosphere, clothing, etc. The use of ultraviolet linht as a tool by the chemist, as wrll as hy the manufacturer of food products. in the irradiationof c~rvals,milk, and certain oils, is ably formulated. The chapter by C m m s H. LAWALL on "The Romance of Beverages" shows the part that liquid refreshments, alcoholic or otherwise, has played in the lives of people. The history of alcoholic drinks, tea, coffee, and cocoa is writtenin an interesting manner and includes many insertions of verse.
