Putnam’s Science Series

1.—The Study of Man. By Professor A. C. Haddon, M.A., D.Sc., M.R.I.A. Fully illustrated. 8o.

“A timely and useful volume. . . . The author wields a pleasing pen and knows how to make the subject attractive. . . . The work is calculated to spread among its readers an attrac­tion to the science of anthropology. The author’s observa­tions are exceedingly genuine and his descrip­tions are vivid.”—London Athenæum.

2.—The Groundwork of Science. A Study of Epistemology. By St. George Mivart, F.R.S. 8o.

“The book is cleverly written and is one of the best works of its kind ever put before the public. It will be interesting to all readers, and especially to those interested in the study of science.”—New Haven Leader.

3.—Rivers of North America. A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and Geology. By Israel C. Russell, Professor of Geology, University of Michigan, author of “Lakes of North America,” “Glaciers of North America,” “Volcanoes of North America,” etc. Fully illustrated. 8o.

“There has not been in the last few years until the present book any authoritative, broad résumé on the subject, modified and deepened as it has been by modern research and reflec­tion, which is couched in language suitable for the multitude. . . . The text is as entertaining as it is instructive.”—Boston Transcript.

4.—Earth Sculpture; or, The Origin of Land-Forms. By James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc., Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh; author of “The Great Ice Age,” etc. Fully illustrated. 8o.

“This volume is the best popular and yet scientific treatment we know of of the origin and development of land-forms, and we immediately adopted it as the best available text-book for a college course in physiography. . . . The book is full of life and vigor, and shows the sympathetic touch of a man deeply in love with nature.”—Science.

5.—Volcanoes: Their Structure and Significance. By T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., University College, London. Fully illustrated. 8o. Revised and Enlarged Edi­tion. Illustrated.

“It is not only a fine piece of work from a scientific point of view, but it is uncommonly attractive to the general reader, and is likely to have a larger sale than most books of its class.”—Springfield Republican.

6.—Bacteria: Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health. By George Newman, M.D., F.R.S. (Edin.), D.P.H. (Camb.), etc., Demonstrator of Bacteriology in King’s College, London. With 24 micro-photographs of actual organisms and over 70 other illustra­tions. 8o.

“Dr. Newman’s discussions of bacteria and disease, of immunity, of antitoxins, and of methods of disinfec­tion, are illuminating, and are to be commended to all seeking informa­tion on these points. Any discussion of bacteria will seem technical to the uninitiated, but all such will find in this book popular treatment and scientific accuracy happily combined.”—The Dial.

7.—A Book of Whales. By F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S. Illustrated. 8o.

“Mr. Beddard has done well to devote a whole volume to whales. They are worthy of the biographer who has now well grouped and described these creatures. The general reader will not find the volume too technical, nor has the author failed in his attempt to produce a book that shall be acceptable to the zoölogist and the naturalist.”—N. Y. Times.

8.—Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology. With special reference to the Invertebrates. By Jacques Loeb, M.D., Professor of Physiology in the University of Chicago. Illustrated. 8o.

“No student of this most interesting phase of the problems of life can afford to remain in ignorance of the wide range of facts and the suggestive series of interpreta­tions which Professor Loeb has brought together in this volume.”—Joseph Jastrow, in the Chicago Dial.

9.—The Stars. By Professor Simon Newcomb, U.S.N., Nautical Almanac Office, and Johns Hopkins University. 8o. Illustrated.

“The work is a thoroughly scientific treatise on stars. The name of the author is sufficient guarantee of scholarly and accurate work.”—Scientific American.

10.—The Basis of Social Rela­tions. A Study in Ethnic Psychology. By Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., Late Professor of American Archaeology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania; Author of “History of Primitive Religions,” “Races and Peoples,” “The American Race,” etc. Edited by Livingston Farrand, Columbia University. 8o.

“Professor Brinton his shown in this volume an intimate and appreciative knowledge of all the important anthropological theories. No one seems to have been better acquainted with the very great body of facts represented by these sciences.”—Am. Journal of Sociology.

11.—Experiments on Animals. By Stephen Paget. With an Introduc­tion by Lord Lister. Illustrated. 8o.

“To a large class of readers this presenta­tion will be attractive, since it gives to them in a nut-shell the meat of a hundred scientific disserta­tions in current periodical literature. The volume has the authoritative sanc­tion of Lord Lister.”—Boston Transcript.

12.—Infec­tion and Immunity. With Special Reference to the Preven­tion of Infectious Diseases. By George M. Sternberg, M.D., LL.D., Surgeon-General U. S. Army (Retired). Illustrated. 8o.

“A distinct public service by an eminent authority. This admirable little work should be a part of the prescribed reading of the head of every institu­tion in which children of youths are gathered. Conspicuously useful.”—N. Y. Times.

13.—Fatigue. By A. Mosso, Professor of Physiology in the University of Turin. Translated by Margaret Drummond, M.A., and W. B. Drummond, M.B., C.M., F.R.C.P.E.; extra Physician, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh; Author of “The Child, His Nature and Nurture.” Illustrated. 8o.

“A book for the student and for the instructor, full of interest, also for the intelligent general reader. The subject constitutes one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of medical science and of philosophical research.”—Yorkshire Post.

14.—Earthquakes. In the Light of the New Seismology. By Clarence E. Dutton, Major, U. S. A. Illustrated. 8o.

“The book summarizes the results of the men who have accomplished the great things in their pursuit of seismological knowledge. It is abundantly illustrated and it fills a place unique in the literature of modern science.”—Chicago Tribune.

15.—The Nature of Man. Studies in Optimistic Philosophy. By Élie Metchnikoff, Professor at the Pasteur Institute. Transla­tion and introduc­tion by P. Chambers Mitchell, M.A., D.Sc. Oxon. Illustrated. 8o.

“A book to be set side by side with Huxley’s Essays, whose spirit it carries a step further on the long road towards its goal.”—Mail and Express.

16.—The Hygiene of Nerves and Mind in Health and Disease. By August Forel, M.D., formerly Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Zurich. Authorized Transla­tion. 8o.

A comprehensive and concise summary of the results of science in its chosen field. Its authorship is a guarantee that the statements made are authoritative as far as the statement of an individual can be so regarded.

17.—The Prolonga­tion of Life. Optimistic Essays. By Élie Metchnikoff, Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute. Author of “The Nature of Man,” etc. 8o. Illustrated. Net, $2.50. Popular Edi­tion. With an introduc­tion by Prof. Charles S. Minot.

In his new work Professor Metchnikoff expounds at greater length, in the light of addi­tional knowledge gained in the last few years, his main thesis that human life is not only unnaturally short but unnaturally burdened with physical and mental disabilities. He analyzes the causes of these disharmonies and explains his reasons for hoping that they may be counteracted by a ra­tional hygiene.

18.—The Solar System. A Study of Recent Observa­tions. By Prof. Charles Lane Poor, Professor of Astronomy in Columbia University. 8o. Illustrated.

The subject is presented in untechnical language and without the use of mathematics. Professor Poor shows by what steps the precise knowledge of to-day has been reached and explains the marvellous results of modern methods and modern observa­tions.

19.—Heredity. By J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen; Author of “The Science of Life,” etc. 8o. Illustrated.

The aim of this work is to expound, in a simple manner, the facts of heredity and inheritance as at present known, the general conclusions which have been securely established, and the more important theories which have been formulated.

20.—Climate—Considered Especially in Rela­tion to Man. By Robert Decourcy Ward, Assistant Professor of Climatology in Harvard University. 8o. Illustrated.

This volume is intended for persons who have not had special training in the technicalities of climatology. Climate covers a wholly different field from that included in the meteorological text-books. It handles broad ques­tions of climate in a way which has not been attempted in a single volume. The needs of the teacher and student have been kept constantly in mind.

21.—Age, Growth, and Death. By Charles S. Minot, James Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy in Harvard University, President of the Boston Society of Natural History, and Author of “Human Embryology,” “A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology,” etc. 8o. Illustrated.

This volume deals with some of the fundamental problems of biology, and presents a series of views (the results of nearly thirty years of study), which the author has correlated for the first time in systematic form.

22.—The Interpreta­tion of Nature. By C. Lloyd Morgan, LL.D., F.R.S. Crown 8vo.

Dr. Morgan seeks to prove that a belief in purpose as the causal reality of which nature is an expression is not inconsistent with a full and whole-hearted acceptance of the explana­tions of naturalism.

23.—Mosquito Life. The Habits and Life Cycles of the Known Mosquitoes of the United States; Methods for their Control; and Keys for Easy Identifica­tion of the Species in their Various Stages. An account based on the investiga­tion of the late James William Dupree, Surgeon-General of Louisiana, and upon the original observa­tions by the Writer. By Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell, A.B., M.S. With 64 Illustra­tions. 8o.

This volume has been designed to meet the demand of the constantly increasing number of students for a work presenting in compact form the essential facts so far made known by scientific investiga­tion in regard to the different phases of this, as is now conceded, important and highly interesting subject. While aiming to keep within reasonable bounds, that it may be used for work in the field and in the laboratory, no por­tion of the work has been slighted, or fundamental informa­tion omitted, in the endeavor to carry this plan into effect.

24.—Thinking, Feeling, Doing. An Introduc­tion to Mental Science. By E. W. Scripture, Ph.D., M.D., Assistant Neurologist Columbia University, formerly Director of the Psychological Laboratory at Yale University. 189 Illustra­tions. 2d Edi­tion, Revised and Enlarged. 8o.

“The chapters on Time and Ac­tion, Reac­tion Time, Thinking Time, Rhythmic Ac­tion, and Power and Will are most interesting. This book should be carefully read by every one who desires to be familiar with the advances made in the study of the mind, which advances, in the last twenty-five years, have been quite as striking and epoch-making as the strides made in the more material lines of knowledge.”—Jour. Amer. Med. Ass’n., Feb. 22, 1908.

25.—The World’s Gold. By L. de Launay, Professor at the École Supérieure des Mines. Translated by Orlando Cyprian Williams. With an Introduc­tion by Charles A. Conant, author of “History of Modern Banks of Issue,” etc. 8o.

M. de Launay is a professor of considerable repute not only in France, but among scientists throughout the world. In this work he traces the various uses and phases of gold; first its geology; secondly, its extrac­tion; thirdly, its economic value.

26.—The Interpreta­tion of Radium. By Frederick Soddy, Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in the University of Glasgow. Third Edi­tion, rewritten, with data brought down to 1912. 8o With 33 Diagrams and Illustra­tions.

As the applica­tion of the present-day interpreta­tion of Radium (that it is an element undergoing spontaneous disintegra­tion) is not confined to the physical sciences, but has a wide and general bearing upon our whole outlook on Nature, Mr. Soddy has presented the subject in non-technical language, so that the ideas involved are within reach of the lay reader. No effort has been spared to get to the root of the matter and to secure accuracy, so that the book should prove serviceable to other fields of science and investiga­tion, as well as to the general public.

27.—The Social Evil. With Special Reference to Condi­tions Existing in the City of New York. A Report Prepared in 1902 under the Direc­tion of the Committee of Fifteen. Second Edi­tion, Revised, with New Material Covering the Years 1902–1911. Edited by Edwin R. A. Seligman, LL.D., McVickar Professor of Political Economy in Columbia University. 8vo.

A study that is far from being of merely local interest and applica­tion. The problem is considered in all its aspects and, for this purpose, reference has been made to condi­tions prevailing in other communities and to the different attempts foreign cities have made to regulate vice.

28.—Microbes and Toxins. By Etienne Burnet, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris. With an Introduc­tion by Élie Metchnikoff, Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, Paris. With about 71 Illustra­tions.

A well-known English authority said in recommending the volume: “Incomparably the best book there is on this tremendously important subject. In fact, I am assured that nothing exists which gives anything like so full a study of microbiology.” In the volume are considered the general func­tions of microbes, the microbes of the human system, the form and structure of microbes, the physi­ology of microbes, the pathogenic protozoa, toxins, tuberculin and mallein, immunity, applica­tions of bacteriology, vaccines and serums, chemical remedies, etc.

29.—Problems of Life and Reproduc­tion. By Marcus Hartog, D. Sc., Professor of Zoology in University College, Cork. 8vo.

The author uses all the legitimate arms of scientific controversy in assailing certain views that have been widely pressed on the general public with an assurance that must have given many the impression that they were protected by the universal consensus of biologists. Among the subjects considered are: “The Cellular Pedigree and the Problem of Heredity”; “The Rela­tion of Brood-Forma­tion to Ordinary Cell-Division”; “The New Force, Mitokinetism”; “Nuclear Reduc­tion and the Func­tion of Chroism”; “Fertiliza­tion”; “The Transmission of Acquired Characters”; “Mechanism and Life”; “The Biological Writings of Samuel Butler”; “Interpola­tion in Memory”; “The Teaching of Nature Study.”

30.—Problems of the Sexes. By Jean Finot, Author of “The Science of Happiness,” etc. Translated under authority by Mary J. Safford. 8vo.

A masterly presenta­tion of the attitude of the ages toward women and an eloquent plea for her further enfranchisement from imposed and unnatural limita­tions. The range of scholarship that has been enlisted in the writing may well excite one’s wonder, but the tone of the book is popular and its appeal is not to any small sec­tion of the reading public but to all the classes and degrees of an age that, from present indica­tions, will go down in history as the century of Woman.

31.—The Positive Evolu­tion of Religion. Its Moral and Social Reac­tion. By Frederic Harrison. 8vo.

The author has undertaken to estimate the moral and social reac­tion of various forms of Religion—beginning with Nature Worship, Polytheism, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Deism. The volume may be looked upon as the final word, the summary of the celebrated author’s philosophy—a systematic study of the entire religious problem.

32.—The Science of Happiness. By Jean Finot, Author of “Problems of the Sexes,” etc. Translated from the French by Mary J. Safford. 8o.

In this work, which was crowned by the Academy, the author considers a subject, the solu­tion of which offers more enticement to the well-wisher of the race than the gold of the Incas did to the treasure-seekers of Spain, who themselves doubtless looked upon the coveted yellow metal, however mistakenly, as a key to the happiness which all are trying to find. “Amid the noisy tumult of life, amid the dissonance that divides man from man,” remarks M. Finot, “the Science of Happiness tries to discover the divine link which binds humanity to happiness through the soul and through the union of souls.” The author considers the nature of happiness and the means of its attainment, as well as many allied ques­tions.

33.—Genetic Theory of Reality. Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in the Æsthetic Theory of Reality Called Pancalism. By James Mark Baldwin, Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., Foreign Correspondent of the Institute of France, Author of “History of Psychology,” etc.

The author here states the general results of the extended studies in genetic and social science and anthropology made by him and others, and gives a critical account of the history of the interpreta­tion of nature and man, both racial and philosophical.

The book offers an Introduc­tion to Philosophy from a new point of view. It contains, also, a valuable glossary of the terms employed in these and similar discussions.

34.—Mosquito Control in Panama. The Eradica­tion of Malaria and Yellow Fever in Cuba and Panama. By J. A. Le Prince, C.E., A. M., Chief Sanitary Inspector, Isthmian Canal Commission, 1904–1914, and A. J. Orenstein, M.D., Assistant Chief Sanitary Inspector, Isthmian Canal Commission. With an introduc­tion by L. O. Howard, Ph.D., Entomologist and Chief, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 8o. 95 illustra­tions.

Mr. Le Prince’s books will be not only of great practical importance as a guide to future work of the same character, especially in the Tropics, but also of permanent historic value.

35.—The Organism as a Whole. From a Physico-Chemical Viewpoint. By Jacques Loeb, Author of “Comparative Physiology of the Brain.” 8o.

The author accounts for the harmonious character of the organism on a purely physico-chemical basis, without the assump­tion of design on the one hand, and without the formula­tion of too definite a theory of evolu­tion on the other. The book contains, in addi­tion to the text, all the necessary illustra­tions.