library_science

	Inorganic Chemistry by E.C.C.Baly, F.R.S. Grant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Liverpool. The People's Books TC & EC Jack. London. n.d. Hardcover. By the author of "Spectroscopy". No date but similar to those in the 1920's and 1930's. B&W line drawings.
	Atomic Energy In The Coming Era by David Dietz, (insert big long list of accomplishments) Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 1945 Illustrated. Hardcover with b&w photographic plates and line drawings including the "cyclotron", "atom smasher", "the "Van de Graaf electrostatic generator" and a nice one of "Prof. Albert Einstein with the Chairman of the Uranium Section of the Office of Scientific Research". By the 1937 Winner Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
	Australian Nature Studies A Book of Reference For Those Interested In Nature Study by J. A. Leach, D.Sc. (insert long list of achievements) Crichley Parker, Melbourne. 1922 Hardcover. Lots of line drawings with six full colour watercolour plates scattered through- out of birds. A good look at seashore animals, shells, plants, birds, insects. No mammals included.
	The Origin of Life by A.T. Oparin. Member of USSR Academy of Science Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow. 1955 Paperback. Translated from the Russian. Tackles the issues of Materialism versus Idealism and Religion, Orgins of Proto-proteins, Living Protoplasm and Primary Organisms. B&W plates include life of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods onwards.
	Fortunes in Formula for Home, Farm and Workshop. The Modern Authority for Amateur and Professional Edited by Gardner D Hiscox M.E. & Prof T. O'Connor Sloane A.B., A.M.,Em, Ph.D. Books, Inc. New York. 1939 Originall published in 1907. Hard cover. Full page photograph of Thomas Edison in his laboratory. Includes a Guide To How And Where To Procure Ingrediants, Illustrated Workshop & Labratory Methods, Latin Names Translated Into English, A Glossary of Common Names of Chemical Sunstances. Includes recipes for preperations from everything from hair straighteners to pastes and perfumes.
	An Outline of the Development of Science The Thinkier's Library. No 120. by Dr Mansel Davies Watts and Co. London. 1947 First edition. Small hardcover. Chapters start with Science in the Ancient World, The Dark Ages & Science of Islam, Dawn of European Science, Founders of Modern Scientific Method, The 17th Century:Age of Newton. Includes "The Quaker Schoolmaster & the Atomic Theory." B&W plates.
	Electricity & Magnetism For Higher School Certificate & Intermediate Students by S. G. Starling B.Sc., A.R.C.Sc., F.Inst.P. Longman's Green & Co. London. 1933 Hardcover with b&w illustrations. Chapter 15 "Current in Gasses- X-Rays" doesn't seem to be applied in any to medicine. Includes Logarithems charts, Antilogarithems charts and question and answer sections at the end of each chapter.
	Experimental Science- 1. Physics by S.E. Brown Cambridge University Press. London 1940 First printed in 1913. Hardcover. Three sections- Measurement, Hydostatics and Mechanics. With revision question papers for Oxford and Cambridge at back. Loads of good b&w line drawings. Measurement guides for converting inches to metres which is interesting since metric wasn't generally adopted until much later on. REVIEW
	Reports of the Progress of Applied Chemistry Issued by the Society of Chemical Industry. Vol XXIV W. Heffner & Sons, Great Britain. 1939 Hardcover. 39 contributors to the reports all the lots of letters after their names. Interesting sections include ""Cellulose Textile Chemistry", "Intermediates & Dyes,""Electrochemical & Electrometallurgical Industries," "Plastics", Sanitation & Water Purification," "Leather & Glue" and many more. Pages of ads at back.
	Principles of Theoretical Chemistry with Special Reference to the Constitution of Chemical Compounds by Ira Remsen, Prof Chemistry Johns Hopkins University Bailliere, Tindall & Cox. London. 1897 Hardcover. 5th edition, thoroughly revised. Includes chapters on "Unsaturated Compounds Allied To the Marsh-Gas Derivatives," "Valency," "Atomic Weights and Theory" and much, much more.
	The World A General Regional Geography- Australian & New Zealand Edition by Jasper H Stembridge, Robert B Withers & B J Garnier Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1960 With maps, contours maps, b&w photographs. General information along with rainfall, weather and produce and any interesting facts about the country or area. In case you wanted to know, a laden Llama travels at about 12 miles a day.
	Elementary Treatice on Physics Experimental and Applied for the use of Colleges and Schools by Professor Ganot Translated & edited from the 9th edition with the author's sanction by E Atkinson. H. Balliere. W. H. Cox. London. 1863 Old hardcover. Much used. Fine line engravings. Original book title "Elements de Physique." Well written text. Includes pages of other publications by the author at the back. Table of Contents located at the rear of the book.
	Wild Food In Australia by A.B. & J. W. Cribb Collins. Sydney.1975 First edition. Paintings by Charles McCubbin. 8 colour plates. A great many plants do not have illustrations making it a little hard to tell what they look like exactly. Botanical names and vulgar names included. Some of the entries are quite brief- the eucalypyus being a small paragraph which states "many types of" and leaves it there.

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