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Volume 13 - November 1980

Book Reviews

Nineteenth Century - The Young Darwin and His Cultural Circle: A Study of Influences which Helped Shape the Language and Logic of the First Drafts of the Theory of Natural Selection. By Edward Manier. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1978. Pp. xii + 242. Hfl. 65/$24.50; Hfl 30/$11.95 (paperback).

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Triumph of Evolution. American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900–1941. By Hamilton Cravens. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. Pp. xxiv + 351. $17.50.

Nineteenth Century - The Transcendental Part of Chemistry. By David M. Knight. Folkestone: Dawson, 1978. Pp. viii + 289. £12.00.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era. The Move toward Monopoly. By James G. Burrow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 218. £9.75.

Nineteenth Century - Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. By Susan Faye Cannon. Folkestone: Dawson; New York: Science History Publications, 1978. Pp. xii + 296. £12.50/$ 17.95.

Nineteenth Century - The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by G. L'E. Turner. Science in History, i. Leyden: Noordhoff International Publishing, 1976. Pp. vi + 218. Df155.00/$21.25.

Scientific Revolution - Robert Boyle and the English Revolution: A Study in Social and Intellectual Change. By J. R. Jacob. New York: Burt Franklin, 1977. Pp. 240. $18.95.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Thomas Hunt Morgan. The Man and his Science. By Garland E. Allen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. xvii + 447. £17.60.

Nineteenth Century - Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Germany. By Frederick Gregory. Dordrechtand Boston: D. Reidel, 1977. Pp. xvii + 279. $28.00.

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Eighteenth Century - L'Institution de la science et l'expérience du vivant: méthode et expérience à l'Académie royale des sciences, 1666–1793. By Claire Salomon-Bayet. Paris: Flammarion, 1978. Pp. 464. No price stated.

Obituary

Victor Eyles 10 October 1895–8 March 1978

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Nineteenth Century - Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology: the Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society. By Gerald L. Geison. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xix + 401. £18.40.

Eighteenth Century - The Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century. By Lester S. King. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. viii + 291. £12.25.

Report of Council

Report of Council for the Year 1979–80

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Eighteenth Century - Essays and Papers in the History of Modern Science. By Henry Guerlac. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 540. £14.00.

Nineteenth Century - The Life of William Carmichael M'Intosh, MD, FRS, of St Andrews, 1838–1931, a Pioneer in Marine Biology. By A. E. Gunther. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press for the University of St Andrews, 1977. Pp. 214. £5.00.

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