Abstract
THIS welcome annual (for it is in no sense an almanac) again makes its appearance. The general arrangement is very much the same as heretofore. As this is the twenty-fifth year in which the present editor has had the arranging of it, the article which he contributes consists of his personal reminiscences (or some of them), which will be read with much interest. But we think that he has overstepped the mark to the detriment of the memory of Sir William Abney in stating that his various text-books display a pronounced disinclination to deal with the work of other investigators, and that therefore we have in English no comprehensive work similar to those of Eder in Germany and Fabre in France. Abney never attempted such a comprehensive work, although the editor states that “he was the one man to supervise” it, and perhaps the editor himself gives the reason when he says that “it was an obvious effort to him to present a subject in simple terms”. If Great Britain “suffered from the Abney predominance”, as stated here, that surely was the fault of his contemporaries, as this is a free country.
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