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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 57, No. 6 (Dec., 1943), pp. i-ivPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/18225 .
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CAN HORMONES HELP WIN THE PEACE? DR. ERWIN P. VOLL- M.ER 483
VISUAL ORGANS OF INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS. DR. WALTER N. HESS .... . .............................. 489
WHY PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION? RUTH ALIDA THOMAS. 497 THE GIANT FRESH-WATER FISHES OF SOUTH AMERICA.
DR. E. W. GUDGER ...................... 500 EXPLOSIVES-VERSATILE TOOL OF INDUSTRY AND WAR.
D..D JAS. K . HUNT .4.. ....................... . .... ...... ................. . .... 514 FRIEI)RICH MIESCHER, 1844-1895. DR. JESSE P. GREENSTEIN . 523 ANCESTORLESS MAN: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL DILEMMA.
DR. J. M . GILLETTE ................................... ....................................... 533 HISTORY OF THE MEASUREMENT OF HEAT. II. THE CON-
SE.RVATION OF ENERGY. DR. CARL B. BOYER . 546 WATER-THE UNIVERSAL ADULTERANT. HERMANN C. LYTHGOE 555 WILLIAM LYON PHELPS, 1865-1943. DR. GEORGE: H. NETTLETON .564 THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE:
Concentrations of Vitamin A, Carotene, and Xanthophyll in Normal Human Blood; Highways of Steel; The New Division of Electron and Ion Optics in the American Physical Society; National Con- sumers Food Conference at Cleveland .567
BOOKS ON SCIENCE: Introduction to Celestial Navigation; Elementary Electronics; The History of Contagion; Handbook of Psychiatry .574
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The War on Cancer. EDWARD PODOLISKY, M.D. 179 pp. $1.75. June, 1943. Reinihold.
Never before has the dramatic story of the relenitless war being waged on this disease been presented so coin- plletely and intelligibly. It discusses the effectiveness of X-ray, Cyclotron, Radium, Surgery and Refrigera- tion and tells the very latest advances that science has miiade in the battle against this terrible killer-cancer.
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Professor Rush's new book unfolds the anlazing record of recent achievemenlts in the tield of physical science. Atom-smiiashing, artificial radioactivity, the electron miiicroscope, such phenomena as cosmic rays, and the theories of relativity and quanita are analyzed in terms of ttleir application to daily life.
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Helping the tire maker: Pictured here is a laboratory model of the new Westinghouse- developed "mass spectrometer," an adaptation of which analyzes gases with incredible swiftness anld accuiracy. Right now, one of the most important of its many uses is speeding up tremendotusly a step in the making of synthetic rubber.
Westinghouse research accepts every wartime challenge.. Under the spur of war, Westinghouse research is delving into numberless mysteries, not only in the vast field of electricity and electronics, but also in chemistry, physics, metallurgy, plastics. And as a result, out of the great Westinghouse laboratories has come a steady stream of new war products, and new and better ways of making old ones.
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