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study that was wont to be!... But Miss Marion Newbigin invests its dry bones with the flesh and blood of romantic interest, taking stock of geography as a fairy-book of science."--_Daily Telegraph._ 9. _THE EVOLUTION OF PLANTS_ By Dr D. H. SCOTT, M.A., F.R.S., late Hon. Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew. (Fully illustrated.) "The information which the book provides is as trustworthy as first-hand knowledge can make it.... Dr Scott's candid and familiar style makes the difficult subject both fascinating and easy."--_Gardeners' Chronicle._ 17. _HEALTH AND DISEASE_ By W. LESLIE MACKENZIE, M.D., Local Government Board, Edinburgh. "The science of public health administration has had no abler or more attractive exponent than Dr Mackenzie. He adds to a thorough grasp of the problems an illuminating style, and an arresting manner of treating a subject often dull and sometimes unsavoury."--_Economist._ 18. _INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS_ By A. N. WHITHEAD, Sc.D., F.R.S. (With Diagrams.) "Mr Whitehead has discharged with conspicuous success the task he is so exceptionally qualified to undertake. For he is one of our great authorities upon the foundations of the science, and has the breadth of view which is so requisite in presenting to the reader its aims. His exposition is clear and striking."--_Westminster Gazette._ 19. _THE ANIMAL WORLD_ By Professor F. W. GAMBLE, D.Sc., F.R.S. With Introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. (Many Illustrations.) "A delightful and instructive epitome of animal (and vegetable) life.... A most fascinating and suggestive survey."--_Morning Post._ 20. _EVOLUTION_ By Professor J. ARTHUR THOMSON and Professor PATRICK GEDDES. "A many-coloured and romantic panorama, opening up, like no other book we know, a rational vision of world-development."--_Belfast News-Letter._ 22. _CRIME AND INSANITY_ By Dr C. A. MERCIER, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Author of "Text-Book of Insanity," etc. "Furnishes much valuable information from one occupying the highest position among medico-legal psychologists."--_Asylum News._ 28. _PSYCHICAL RESEARCH_ By Sir W. F. BARRETT, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1873-1910. "As a former President of the Psychical Research Society, he is familiar with all the developments of this most fascinating branch of science, and thus what he has to say on thought-reading, hypnotism, telepathy, crystal-vision, spiritualism, divinings, and so o
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