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THIS is a revised edition of a work which has had a very successful career, but is constructed upon a plan which has little to commend it. The revision has consisted in bringing the information into line with current scientific knowledge, the plan of the book remaining as in the original. The rudiments of zoology, botany, geology, physics, chemistry, animal physiology, and vegetable physiology are all described in the four hundred pages which constitute the text, so that the book is comprehensive in its scope, if nothing else. The chief fault we have to find is that far too many technical terms are defined and used, so that the unfortunate pupils who are introduced to natural history by this book will be given the idea that science consists chiefly of words of Greek origin, and an unpronounceable terminology.
First Year of Scientific Knowledge.
By Paul Bert. Translated by Madame Paul Bert. Revised and partly re-written by Richard Wormell, D.Sc, M.A.; and Montagu Lubbock, M.D. Pp. vi + 417. (London: Relfe Brothers, Ltd. Paris: Armand Colin and Co.)
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First Year of Scientific Knowledge. Nature 57, 510 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057510b0
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