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Volume 5 - December 1971

Book Reviews

Geology and Biology - Sir Charles Lyell's Scientific Journals on the Species Question. Ed. by Leonard G. Wilson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1970. Pp. lxi + 572. £7.85.

Pharmacology - The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandī and the Relations of Early Arabic Simples to those found in the Indigenous Medicine of the Near East and India. By Martin Levey & Noury Al-Khaledy. University of Philadelphia Press and Oxford University Press. 1967. Pp. 382. 142s. 6d.

Physical Sciences - Rutherford and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity. Ed. by Lawrence Badash. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. Pp. xxii + 378. 1969. £5.62½.

Geology - The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God, A Theme in Geoteleology. By Yi-Fu Tuan. University of Toronto Press and Oxford University Press. Pp. xiii + 160, 9 figs. 1968. 47s. 6d.

Physical Sciences - Early Solar Physics. By A. J. Meadows. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1970. Pp. viii + 312. £1.75 (paperback).

Biology and Medicine - The Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology. By Nellie B. Eales. Alden Press for the Library, University of Reading. 1969. Pp. xiv + 425. 1 plate. Price not stated.

Biology and Medicine - Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. By Robert Chambers; with an Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1969. Pp. 38 + vi + 390. 50s.

Geology and Biology - Time's Arrow and Evolution. By Harold F. Blum. Third Edition. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1968. Pp. 232. £1.30.

Biological Sciences and Medicine - A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles. By J. F. D. Shrewsbury. London: Cambridge University Press. 1970. Pp. xi + 661, 4 plates. £8.

Biology and Medicine - John Hunter. By Jessie Dobson. Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone. 1969. Pp. xvii + 361. Plates. 50s.

Biology and Medicine - Un grand médecin et biologiste: Casimir-Joseph Davaine (1812–1882). By Jean Théodoridès. (Analecta Medico-Historica 4.) Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1968. Pp. 238. Plates. £5.

Medicine - The History of Medical Education. U.C.L.A. Forum in Medical Sciences No. 12. Ed. by C. D. O'Malley. Berkley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press. 1970. Pp. xii + 548. £9.50.

Biology and Medicine - Eugenics and the Progressives. By Donald K. Pickens. Pp. xii + 260. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. 1968. $7.95.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Art, Science, and History in the Renaissance. Edited by Charles S. Singleton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1967. Pp. vii + 446. £5 19s.

Biological Sciences and Medicine - The Chemistry of Life. Lectures on the History of Biochemistry. Ed. by Joseph Needham. London: Cambridge University Press. 1970. Pp. xxx + 214. £3.

Technology - Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces. By J. P. Wild. London: Cambridge University Press. 1970. Pp. xxii + 190. £3.25.

Biological Sciences and Medicine - Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert M. Young. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1970. Pp. xiv + 278. £3.25.

Technology - A History of Machine Tools, 1700–1910. By W. Steeds. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. Pp. xx + 181. 153 plates. £6 6s.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Leonard Rauwolf: Sixteenth-century Physician, Botanist and Traveler. By Karl H. Dannenfeldt. Pp. xi + 321. 4 figs., table. Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press. 1969. 76s.

Technology - Osborne Reynolds and Engineering Science Today. Ed. by D. M. McDowell & J. D. Jackson. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1970. Pp. xii + 263. £3.60.

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