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Science, New Series, Vol. 117, No. 3042, Apr. 17, 1953


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Front Matter (1 p.)
On the Astin Dismissal, p. 3
The Editorial Board

Science, Poetry, and Politics, pp. 395-399
Eric Larrabee

Some Comments on Popular-Science Books, pp. 399-403
John Pfeiffer

Scientists Can Talk to the Layman, pp. 403-405
John W. Hill; James E. Payne

Selling Books to Scientists, pp. 406-409
Martin Matheson

News and Notes, pp. 409-413


Book Reviews
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Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century
A. R. Hall
Review author[s]: Henry Guerlac
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Origins of American Scientists
R. H. Knapp; H. B. Goodrich
The Younger American Scholar: His Collegiate Origins
Robert H. Knapp; Joseph J. Greenbaum
Review author[s]: Dael Wolfle
Astronomy, pp. 416-417
The Expansion of the Universe
Paul Couderc
Review author[s]: D. Ter Haar
Physics and Mathematics, pp. 417-422
Cloud Chamber Photographs of the Cosmic Radiation
G. D. Rochester; J. G. Wilson
High-Energy Particles
Bruno Rossi
Bessel Functions: Functions of Positive Integer Order
W. G. Bickley
Theoretical Nuclear Physics
John M. Blatt; Victor F. Weisskopf
Theory of Matrices
Sam Perlis
Ferromagnetic Properties of Metals and Alloys
K. Hoselitz
Structure of Metals: Crystallographic Methods, Principles, and Data
Charles S. Barrett
Review author[s]: Kenneth Greisen; John A. Wheeler; Henry P. Thielman; G. Breit; R. H. Bruck; Francis Bitter; John E. Dorn
Chemistry and Biochemistry, pp. 422-425
Chemistry of Carbon Compounds: Aliphatic Compounds
B. E. H. Rodd
Metabolic Maps
Wayne W. Umbreit
Chemistry of the Metal Chelate Compounds
Arthur E. Martell; Melvin Calvin
A Guide to Filter Paper and Cellulose Powder Chromatography
Tudor S. G. Jones; J. N. Balston; B. E. Talbot
Paper Chromatography: A Laboratory Manual
Richard J. Block; Raymond LeStrange; Gunter Zweig
Rocks for Chemists
S. James Shand
Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie. 8th ed. Edited by Gmelin-Institut fur anorganische Chemie und Grenzgebiete. Sauerstoff, System No. 3, Part 2: Vorkommen-Technologie, 1952. 218 pp. 15.48. Arsen, No. 17, 1952. 475 pp. 33.33. Magnesium, No. 27, Part A-4: Legierungen von Magnesium mit Zink bis Rhenium; Oberflachenbehandlung, 1952. 336 pp. 23.81. Titan, No. 41, 1951. 481 pp. 27.20
Review author[s]: E. T. McBee; Edwin E. Hays; John C. Bailar; Ralph C. Corley; Joseph J. Fahey; Herbert C. Brown
The Biological Sciences, pp. 425-429
Evolution in the Genus Drosophila
J. T. Patterson; W. S. Stone
The Tropical Rain Forest: An Ecological Study
P. W. Richards
Theoretische Biologie: Stoffwechsel, Wachstum
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
The Epigenetics of Birds
C. H. Waddington
Mammals of Utah: Taxonomy and Distribution
Stephen D. Durrant
Mammals of Kansas
E. Lendell Cockrum
Soil Microbiology
Selman A. Waksman
Review author[s]: Warren P. Spencer; C. Langdon White; Gairdner B. Moment; Florence Moog; David H. Johnson; R. E. Hungate
The Earth Sciences, pp. 429-432
Traité de Paléontologie. Vol. I, Les Stades Inférieurs d'Organisation du Regne Animal—Protistes, Spongiaires, Coelentérés, Bryozoaires; Vol. II, Problèmes d'Adaptation et de Phylogenèse—Brachiopodes, Chétognathes, Annélides, Géphyriens, Mollusques
Jean Piveteau
Europe
Samuel Van Valkenburg; Colbert C. Held
Principles of Invertebrate Paleontology
Robert R. Shrock; William H. Twenhofel
Invertebrate Fossils
Raymond C. Moore; Cecil G. Lalicker; Alfred G. Fischer
Advances in Geophysics
H. E. Landsberg
Volumetric and Phase Behavior of Oil Field Hydrocarbon Systems
M. B. Standing
Review author[s]: W. P. Woodring; Eric Fischer; G. Winston Sinclair; Daniel Linehan; Franklin Veatch
Psychology, pp. 432-434
Psychoanalysis as Science
Ernest R. Hilgard; Lawrence S. Kubie; E. Pumpian-Mindlin
Appraising Personality: The Use of Psychological Tests in the Practice of Medicine
Molly Harrower
A Further Study of Visual Perception
M. D. Vernon
Review author[s]: Brandt F. Steele; Arthur L. Benton; Kendon Smith
The Medical Sciences, pp. 434-437
Poliomyelitis
Pathologie Chimique
M. Polonovski; P. Boulanger; G. Schapira
Chemical Induction of Cancer
George Wolf
The Literature on Streptomycin, 1944-1952
Selman A. Waksman
A Survey of the Literature of Dental Caries
P. C. Jeans; Guttorm Toverud
Review author[s]: Albert B. Sabin; Ralph C. Corley; John L. Wood; F. K. Kirchner; Robert G. Kesel


Book Review Index, p. 437


Comments and Communications
How Much?, p. 438
Arthur Furst
Can Wind Move Rocks on Racetrack Playa?, pp. 438-439
John S. Shelton
S-Acetyl Pantetheine (Acetyl LBF), pp. 439-440
Tsoo E. King; Charles J. Stewart; Vernon H. Cheldelin; J. Baddiley; E. M. Thain
Pleistocene Corals at Lake Worth, Florida, p. 440
C. Wythe Cooke

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