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...FRENCH REVOLUTION IN ENGLISH HISTORY-Philip Anthony Brown -Button ($3.00). Philip Brown was a young Oxford graduate who died a soldier's death on the fields of Flanders in 1915 in his 30th year. Prof. Gilbert Murray, famed Greek scholar, pays ample tribute to his great intellectual gifts in a short introduction...
...rays, which pass through most solids, can be refracted. Photographs were taken of the rays spread out in fans passing through crystals.-Prof. Manne Siegbaton, Upsala, Sweden...
...Plants. Certain plants can be made to change from male to female or the reverse by altering conditions of soil, moisture, light. The inference is that sex is dependent on environment.-Prof. John H. Shaffner, Ohio State University...
...Prof. Pupin. Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, of Columbia University, was elected President of the Association for 1925. He was born at Idvor, in Banat, Hungary, in 1858. He came to the U. S. 50 years ago, worked his way through Columbia and joined the electrical engineering faculty there. He became an inventor and devised many useful and highly technical electrical inventions. He is now Professor of Electro-Mechanics...
...practiced in Italy as early as 1456. Noses, lips, ears were repaired. Hospitals of the 14th and 15th Centuries were scrupulously clean; bed linen was changed often; stoves were wheeled to the bedsides of patients in winter. Anatomy was studied by dissection, leprosy almost disappeared, other diseases were isolated.-Prof. Lynn Thorndike, Columbia University...