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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jul., 1942), pp. i-ivPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/17694 .
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CONTENTS BACTERIAL WARFARE. COLONEL LEON A. Fox. 5 AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN MODERN RUSSIA. DR. A. HRDLI6KA . 19 NATIJRAL HISTORY OF TERMITES. II. DR. VICTOR W. VON HAGEN 29 SOIL EROSION AS AN ECOLOGICAL PROCESS. DR. EDWARD H.
GRAHAM ............................. 42 STEPHEN HALES-PIONEER PLANT PHYSIOLOGIST. DR. VIC-
TOR A . GREULACH .. .2....................... ... . ....... .......... 52 CHANGES IN LAND UTILIZATION IN SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
DR. JOHN WESLEY COULTER . .. ..................................................... 60 CONT'INENTAL GLACIATION HYPOTHESES BEFORE LOUIS
AGASSIZ. DR. H. F. RAup ........ 66 AGASSIZ. DR. H. F. RAUP ...~~~~~~~~~~~... ...................................................................... CHINESE CHEMICAL TERMS. PROFESSOR RoY C. SPOONER ... 71 SCIENTISTS AND MACHINERY OF THE STATE. DR. CHARL.ES
E . K ELLOGG .......7..6...........................7........ ............. ... 76 BOOKS ON SCIENCE FOR LAYMEN:
Airplanes--Past and Present; The Philosophy of Alfred North W hitehead; Conditioned Reflexes and Psychiatry ................................................ 83
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Bronze Bust of the Late Henry Fatrfield Osborn; Franklin Medal- ists for 1942; Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the American A.ssociation; A Scientific Meeting Cancelled; American Indian Sound Recordings in the National Archives; Art Alcove in the Index Exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution ., ....................................................... 86
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This book has been written to serve two purposes.
First, it is intended to convey to the student many of
the essential fundamental concepts of miodern physics.
Second, to serve as a reference book for the more ad-
vanced student.
Physics. F. L. ROBESON. Illustrated. ix + 819 pp. $4.50. April 24, 1942. Macmillan.
The author intended this textbook to present the subject in such a fashion that it would not be neces- sary for the teacher to explain the text in order that his classroom time might be devoted to demonstrations, discussions, and the solution of problems. Elementary mathematics, repetition, and historical sidelights are employed.
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Introduction to Musicology. G. HAYDEN. xiii + 329 pp. $4.00. 1941. Prentice-Hall.
As the sub-title indicates, the aim of this volume is to present "a survey of the fields, systematic and his- torical, of musical knowledge and research." Under systematic musicology is discussed the relations to music of acoustics, physiology, psychology, aesthetics and pedagogy. Bibliographies and an index are in- cluded.
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THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to the Diffusion of Science
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