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THE provision of lecture experiments to illustrate and emphasise scientific teaching is a matter of great importance, and the Science Masters' Association, in producing these two books, has succeeded in filling a marked gap in the literature. The volumes have been built up from the notes on apparatus and experiments which have appeared from time to time in the School Science Review. Members of the Science Masters' Association have contributed many of the experiments, and a number have been selected from the demonstrations given at the annual meetings of the Association. In this work are to be found more than four hundred experiments, distributed over the different branches of physics, chemistry, and biology. The descriptions are excellent, and a commendable feature is that, in many cases, actual figures obtained in the experiments show the reader what type of accuracy can be obtained. As appendices are given some very useful notes and experiments for conversazione use; also an excellent summary entitled “First Aid in the Laboratory”, as well as information concerning the obtaining of duty-free spirit. The work is admirably balanced, well produced, illustrated with many diagrams, and is to be highly commended.
The Science Masters' Book. Part 1: Physics. Part 2: Chemistry, Biology, Conversazione Experiments.
Experiments selected from the School Science Review by a Committee of the Science Masters' Association. Edited and arranged by G. H. J. Adlam., with the assistance of W. H. Barrett, F. Fairbrother, T. Hartley, O. H. Latter, E. J. Moore, G. N. Pingriff, V. T. Saunders, E. G. Savage, A. Vassall. Part 1. Pp. xvi + 256. Part 2. Pp. xvi + 267. (London: John Murray, 1931.) 7s. 6d. net each Part.
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The Science Masters' Book. Part 1: Physics Part 2: Chemistry, Biology, Conversazione Experiments . Nature 129, 332 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129332a0
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