Dictionary of Scientific Terms as used in the Various Sciences The Origin of the Kiss: and other Scientific Diversions

Abstract

ADMIRAL BEADNELL'S “Dictionary of Scientific Terms” was first published four years ago, and was warmly welcomed by high authorities for its comprehensiveness, its accuracy and its utility. A new edition having been called for, the book now appears in a revised and extended form. Its chief appeal is to the layman, whom the author has mainly in view. But the vast domain of science necessitates an increasing degree of specialism, and we have it on the authority of distinguished specialists that this concise dictionary is useful to others besides the layman. The latter, however, in the course of his general reading, wants something more than the ordinary dictionary tells him about hormones and vitamins, about wave-lengths, and about the size and weight not only of protons, electrons and atoms, but also of the earth, the solar system and the Milky Way. Or he may want facts concerning cosmic rays, dwarf stars, the density of space, the mysteries of life and sex, the fertilization of flowers by snails, bats and birds, and a hundred other topics that come to the eye as one turns the pages of this little book. It is a marvellous florin's worth, and well deserves continued success. Dictionary of Scientific Terms as used in the Various Sciences By Surgeon Rear-Admiral C. M. Beadnell. (The Thinker's Library, No. 65.) Second edition revised and with Supplement. Pp. x + 232 + 14. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1942.) 2s. net. The Origin of the Kiss: and other Scientific Diversions By Surgeon Rear-Admiral C. M. Beadnell. (The Thinker's Library, No. 89.) Pp. x + 117. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1942.) 2s. net.