Science (Academic) Books

"To clear the way for the understanding of the line of argument adopted in this little book, I commence with a quotation from Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy, on the scope of Biology. I do this for two reasons : 1. To present the reader with the fullest and clearest explanation...

Benjamin C. Gruenberg,Consultant, Social Security Board Formerly Chairman Biology Departments Commercial and Julia Richman High Schools New York City and N. Eldred Bingham,Horace Mann-Lincoln School Teachers College, Columbia University

An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.-Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.-William Harvey and experimental observation.-The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.-The progress of minute anatomy.--Linnaeus and...

With more than two hundred illustrations. "To the "man in the street" the biologist, with his "bugs" or his "derms", frequently appears as a harmless but equally useless individual. Thus in an issue of the "New Republic" shortly after America's entrance into the world war, a seriocomic writer in...

Gruenberg, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Charles), 1875-1965, Formery Head of the Biology Department in The Julia Richman High Scool, New York.

McFarland, Joseph, 1868-1945, Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, Medico- Chirurgial College of Philadelphia; Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Howes, G. B. (George Bond), 1853-1905, Demonstrator of Biology, Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines. Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy, St. George Hospital Medical School, London.

Wolcott, Robert Henry, 1868-1934, Professor of Zoology, Universiiy of Nebraska

Frank M. WheatChairman, Department of Biology, George Washington High School, New York Instructor in Biology, New York University and Elisabeth T. Fitzpatrick Chairman, Department of Health Education, George Washington High School, New York

Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the subject are so technical that...