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Volume 22 - July 1989

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Robert Kargon & Peter Achinstein (eds). Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 547. ISBN 0-262-11117-9. £35.95.

Charles Webster. The Health Services Since the War. Volume 1. Problems of Health Care. The National Health Service Before 1957. London: H.M.S.O., 1988. Pp. x + 479. ISBN 0-11-630942-3. No price given.

F. Burwick (ed.). Approaches to Organic Form: Permutations in Science and Culture. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster & Tokyo: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. xix + 286. ISBN 90-277-2541-1. £43.95; DFl.160.00; $64.00.

Martin Campbell-Kelly (ed.). The Works of Charles Babbage. London: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 1989. 11 vols. ISBN 1-85196-005-8. £500.

W. J. O'Connor. Founders of British Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary, 1820–1885. Manchester: MUP, 1988. Pp. 264. ISBN 0-7190-2537-0. £27.50.

Peter Alter. The Reluctant Patron: Science and the State in Britain, 1850–1920. Oxford: Berg, 1987. ISBN 0-907582-67-2. £30.

Montgomery Furth. Substance, Form and Psyche: an Aristotelean Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 300. ISBN 0-521-34143-4. £30.

William A. S. Sarjeant. Geologists and the History of Geology. An International Bibliography from the Origins to 1978. Supplement 1979–1984 and Additions. Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. 2 vols. Pp. xxxii + 1691. ISBN 0-89874-939-5. No price given.

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Rajkumari Williamson (ed.). The Making of Physicists. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. viii + 200. ISBN 0-85274-524-9. £15.00.

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John H. Hammond & Jill Austin. The Camera Lucida in Art and Science. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. xii + 201. ISBN 0-85274-527-3. £19.95.

Index of Authors

Index of Authors

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Gunther Garbrecht. Hydraulics and Hydraulic Research. A Historical Review. Rotterdam and Boston: A.A. Balkema, 1987. Pp. ix + 362. ISBN 90-6191-621-6. £53.50

Report of Council

Report of Council for the Year 1988–89

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R.V. & P.J. Wallis. Biobibliography of British Mathematics and its Applications, Part II, 1701–1760. Newcastle upon Tyne: Project for Historical Biobibliography, 1986, Pp. xxiii + 502. ISBN 1-85027-003-1. £48.

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BJH volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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Juan Martinez-Alier. Ecological Economics. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987. Pp. ix + 286. ISBN 0-631-15739-5. £29.50.

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