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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Sep., 1928), pp. i-viiiPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/7974 .
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A GLIMPSE OF AUSTRALIA. PROFESSOR ANDREW C. LAWSON . 244
THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS IN THE NINETEENTH CEN- TURY. PROFESSOR CHARLES CLAYTON WYLIE .260
HEREDITARY CONSTITUTION AND X-RAYS. DR. ROBERT T. HANCE ... ... .. ........... ... .. ......... ........ ............ 264
PARASITES OF BLACK BASS. PROFESSOR RALPH V. BANGHAM .. 267
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STORY OF ELECTRICITY and a Chronology of Electricity and Electrotherapeutics
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This is the story, here succinctly and skillfully told by Herman Good- man. The French chemist, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, began his History of Chemistry with the much-quoted dictum: "Chemistry is a French science; it was created by Lavoisier." As an epigram, this is interesting; as an historical statement, it is unwarranted. There is no such chauvinism in the monograph before us. Dr. Goodman, fascinated by the electrical pageant, watches with unprejudiced eyes the procession throughout the ages. He tells his story as an interwoven and interlocking entity, the various ramifi- cations of electricity from its early state to the most recent speculations be- ing deftly knitted, and the reader soon becomes aware of the dependence of each pioneer on the work of the preceding. Even Gilbert had his Robert Norman. . ..-From Dr. Victor Robinson's Introduction.
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