Science
7. MODERN GEOGRAPHY
By Dr Marion Newbigin. (Illustrated.) "Geography, again: what a dull, tedious study that was wont to be!... But Miss Marion Newbigin invests its dry bones with the flesh and blood of romantic interest."—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 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. "Dr Mackenzie 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. Whitehead, 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."—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 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. "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. "What he has to say on thought-reading, hypnotism, telepathy, crystal-vision, spiritualism, divinings, and so on, will be read with avidity."—Dundee Courier.
31. ASTRONOMY
By A. R. Hinks, M.A., Chief Assistant, Cambridge Observatory. "Original in thought, eclectic in substance, and critical in treatment.... No better little book is available."—School World.
32. INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE
By J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., Regius Professor of Natural History, Aberdeen University. "Professor Thomson's delightful literary style is well known; and here he discourses freshly and easily on the methods of science and its relations with philosophy, art, religion, and practical life."—Aberdeen Journal.
36. CLIMATE AND WEATHER
By Prof. H. N. Dickson, D.Sc. Oxon., M.A., F.R.S.E., President of the Royal Meteorological Society. (With Diagrams.) "The author has succeeded in presenting in a very lucid and agreeable manner the causes of the movements of the atmosphere and of the more stable winds."—Manchester Guardian.
41. ANTHROPOLOGY
By R. R. Marett, M.A., Reader in Social Anthropology in Oxford University. "An absolutely perfect handbook, so clear that a child could understand it, so fascinating and human that it beats fiction 'to a frazzle.'"—Morning Leader.
44. THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY
By Prof. J. G. McKendrick, M.D. "It is a delightful and wonderfully comprehensive handling of a subject which, while of importance to all, does not readily lend itself to untechnical explanation.... Upon every page of it is stamped the impress of a creative imagination."—Glasgow Herald.
46. MATTER AND ENERGY
By F. Soddy, M.A., F.R.S. "Prof. Soddy has successfully accomplished the very difficult task of making physics of absorbing interest on popular lines."—Nature.
49. PSYCHOLOGY, THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOUR
By Prof. W. McDougall, F.R.S., M.B. "A happy example of the non-technical handling of an unwieldy science, suggesting rather than dogmatising. It should whet appetites for deeper study."—Christian World.
53. THE MAKING OF THE EARTH
By Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S. (With 38 Maps and Figures.) "A fascinating little volume.... Among the many good things contained in the series this takes a high place."—The Athenæum.
57. THE HUMAN BODY
By A. Keith, M.D., LL.D., Conservator of Museum and Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons. (Illustrated.) "It literally makes the 'dry bones' to live. It will certainly take a high place among the classics of popular science."—Manchester Guardian.
58. ELECTRICITY
By Gisbert Kapp, D.Eng., Professor of Electrical Engineering in the University of Birmingham. (Illustrated.) "It will be appreciated greatly by learners and by the great number of amateurs who are interested in what is one of the most fascinating of scientific studies."—Glasgow Herald.
62. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE
By Dr Benjamin Moore, Professor of Bio-Chemistry, University College, Liverpool.
67. CHEMISTRY
By Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in Finsbury Technical College, London. Presents clearly, without the detail demanded by the expert, the way in which chemical science has developed, and the stage it has reached.
In Preparation
THE MINERAL WORLD. By Sir T. H. Holland, K.C.I.E., D.Sc.
PLANT LIFE. By Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.R.S.
NERVES. By Prof. D. Fraser Harris, M.D., D.Sc.
A STUDY OF SEX. By Prof. J. A. Thomson and Prof.Patrick Geddes.
THE GROWTH OF EUROPE. By Prof. Grenville Cole.
OCEANOGRAPHY. By Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S.