Abstract
WE have already called attention to this admirable series of small volumes. It consists of scientific papers which may be said to have marked definite stages in the development of science. The only fault we have to find with the series, as we have already stated, is that only the German papers are given in the language in which they were originally written. All the others are translated. This is undoubtedly a mistake, for much may often depend on the precise words used by a great master of research. In other respects the series is excellent, and should be of genuine service to scientific students. The papers reproduced in the present set of volumes are Lambert's “Photometrie,” three volumes (1760); photo-chemical researches, by R. Bunsen and H. E. Roscoe (1855-59); an attempt to find the definite and simple conditions in accordance with which the constituent parts of inorganic nature are connected with one another, by Jacob Berzelius (1811-12); on a general principle of the mathematical theory of induced electrical currents, by Franz Neumann (1847); observations on the moving power of fire and the machines fitted for the development of this force, by S. Carnot (1824).
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