(1) Colloid Science applied to Biology: a General Discussion held by the Faraday Society, September–October, 1930 (2) Précis de chimie-physique: à l'usage des étu-diants en médecine

Abstract

(1) THE Report of the Faraday Society's General Discussion at Cambridge on “Colloid Science applied to Biology” is a substantial volume, containing more than 200 pages. The twelve papers which were presented to the meeting only occupy about 120 pages, so that the discussion is responsible for the other 80 pages. This is an accurate reflection of the fact that a lively discussion was maintained during a series of sessions covering two complete days, of which only a small part was occupied by the presentation of papers which had already been circulated in advance. The keenness of the discussion, and the large number of eminent research workers who took part in it, provided a remarkable vindication of the recently adopted policy of the Faraday Society in undertaking the organisation of a discussion on colloid science in alternate years but it also demonstrated, in an even more emphatic way, the value and importance of a meeting at which biologists on one hand and chemists and physicists on the other hand could meet on neutral ground to discuss problems for the solution of which co-operative effort from both sides is obviously needed.

(1) Colloid Science applied to Biology: a General Discussion held by the Faraday Society, September–October, 1930.

Pp. 659–865. (London: The Faraday Society, 1931.) 12s. 6d.

(2) Précis de chimie-physique: à l'usage des étu-diants en médecine.

Prof. Fred Vlès. Pp. vii + 414. (Paris: Vigot frères, 1929.) 50 francs.