The Development of the Sciences

Abstract

THIS substantial volume is a welcome sign of the growing interest in the history of science. In 1920 the Yale Chapter of the Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity invited representatives of the various sciences at Yale University to co-operate in inaugurating a series of public lectures on the history of science. The lectures were readily provided. Prof. Brown dealt with mathematics, Prof. Bumstead with physics, Prof. Johnston with chemistry, Prof. Schlesinger with astronomy, Prof. Gregory with geology, and Prof. Woodruff with biology. The substance of those lectures is contained in the handsome volume under review, published by the Yale University Press on the Amasa Stone Mather Memorial Publica--tion Fund. Yale University is certainly fortunate in having old students who suggest new subjects for lectures and furnish funds for the publication of such lectures.

The Development of the Sciences.

Ernest William Brown Henry Andrews Bumstead John Johnston Frank Schlesinger Herbert Ernest Gregory Lorande Loss Woodruff. Edited by L. L. Woodruff. Pp. xiv + 327 + 28 plates. (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1923.) 16s. net.