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Volume 23 - Issue 2 - April 1979

Book Reviews

David Grylls, Guardians and angels. Parents and children in nineteenth-century literature, London, Faber & Faber, 1978, 8vo, pp. 211, £6.50.

Bryan Gandevia, Tears often shed: child health and welfare in Australia from 1788, Rushcutters Bay, Australia, and Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1978, 8vo, pp.151, illus., [no price stated].

Rosemary White, Social change and the development of the nursing profession. A study of the Poor Law nursing services 1848–1948, London, Henry Kimpton, 1978, 8vo, pp. xi, 243, £6.80.

Philip Abrams and E. A. Wrigley(editors), Towns in societies. Essays in economic history and economic sociology, Cambridge University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. viii, 344, £7.95.

Jack Goody Joan Thirsk and E.P. Thompson(editors), Family and inheritance. Rural society in Western Europe 1200–1800, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. vi, 421, £4.95 (paperback).

Gerald Holton, The scientific imagination: case studies, Cambridge University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xvi, 382, £15.00 (£5.95 paperback).

Albert Rothenberg and Bette Greenberg, The index of scientific writings on creativity. General: 1566–1974, vol. 2, Hamden, Conn., Archon Books; Folkestone, Dawson, 1976, 8vo, pp. xx, 274, £18.50.

Eucharius Rösslin[the younger],On minerals and mineral products. Chapters on minerals from his “Kreutterbüch”, Berlin and New York, W. de Gruyter, 1978, 8vo, pp. xxxvii, 418, DM.240.00.

Stuart F. Spicker(editor), Organism, medicine and metaphysics. Essays in honor of Hans Jonas on his seventy-fifth birthday (10 May 1978), Dordrecht and Boston, Reidel, 1978, 8vo, pp. xxvii, 330, Dfl.65.00/$24.50.

Joseph Kastner, A world of naturalists, London, Murray, 1978, 8vo, pp. xiv, 350, illus., £7.95.

B. H. Kean, Kenneth E. Motu and Adair J. Russell, Tropical medicine and parasitology. Classic investigations, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1978, 2 vols., 4to, pp. xxiii, 677, illus., $50.00.

Walter H. Lewis and Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis, Medical botany. Plants affecting man's health, New York and London, John Wiley, 1977, 4to, pp. xviii, 515, illus., £19.35.

Frank J. Anderson, An illustrated history of the herbals, New York, Columbia University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. xiv, 270, illus., $21.20.

H. J. P. Arnold, William Henry Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography and man of science, London, Hutchinson Benham, 1978, 4to, pp. 383, illus., £13.50.

H. J. P. Arnold, William Henry Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography and man of science, London, Hutchinson Benham, 1978, 4to, pp. 383, illus., £13.50.

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