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Book reviewed in this article:MENDELEYEV, THE STORY or A GREAT SCIENTIST, by Daniel Q. Posin.PRACTICAL SPECTROSCOPY, by George R. Harrison, Ph.D., Sc.D., Professor of Physics; Richard C. Lord, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, and John R. Loofbourow, Sc.D., Professor of Biophysics, all of the Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.ANIMAL FACTS AND FALLACIES, by Osmond P. Breland, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Zoology, The University of Texas.RADAR PRIMER, by J. L. Hornung, Commander U.S.N.R., Supervisor of Radio‐ Electronics, Walter Bervey Junior College, New York City.A NEW GEOMETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, Second Edition, by Theodore Herberg, Head of the Mathematics Department, Pittsfield (Mass.) High School, and Joseph B. Orleans, Head of the Mathematics Department, George Washington High School, New York City.FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY, by Grover W. Mueller, Director of the Division of Physical and Health Education, The Board of Education, Philadelphia and Instructor at Teachers College, Temple University; and Elizabeth Chant Robertson, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto.FUNDAMENTALS or BUSINESS MATHEMATICS, Walter R. van Voorhis, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Fenn College, and Chester W. Topp, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Fenn College.A FIRST COURSE IN ALGEBRA by Walter W. Hart, formerly Associate Professor of Mathematics, School of Education, University of Wisconsin.A SECOND COURSE IN ALGEBRA, Walter W. Hart, formerly Associate Professor of Mathematics, Education Department, University of Wisconsin.THE MATHEMATICAL BASIS OF THE ARTS, by Joseph Schillinger.SPHERICAL HARMONICS, AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON HARMONIC FUNCTIONS WITH APPLICATIONS, by T. M. MacRobert, M. A., D.Sc., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. Second Revised Edition.THE METRIC SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Twentieth Yearbook, Compiled by the Committee on the Metric System, J. T. Johnson, Chairman.ADVENTURES WITH ANIMALS AND PLANTS, by Elizabeth Kroeber, First Assistant in Biological Science and Administrative Assistant at the Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York; and Walter H. Wolff, Principal of the William Cullen Bryant High School, Queens, New York.