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Volume 20 - October 1976

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Gavin De Beer (editor), Charles Darwin. Thomas Henry Huxley. Autobiographies, London, Oxford University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 123, illus., £3.30.

Whitfield J. Belljr., The colonialphysician and other essays, New York, Science History Publications, 1975, 8vo, pp. [2 11], 229, illus., paperback, [no price stated].

L. R. Lind, Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translations, documents, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1975, 4to, pp. [ix], 344, illus., $18.00.

Pamela Horn, The Victorian country child, Kineton, Roundwood Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xv, 244, illus., £6.00.

Brian Inglis, The forbidden game. A social history of drugs, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975, 8vo, pp. 256, illus., £4.95.

Thomas Hobbes, De homine. Traité de l'homme, translation and commentary by Paul-Marie Maurin, Paris, A. Blanchard, 1974, 8vo, pp. 205, illus., Fr.30.

Werner Forssmann, Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany, translated by Hilary Davies, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiv, 352, $10.95.

Jeffrey Lionel Berlant, Profession and monopoly, A study ofmedicine in the United States and Great Britain, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xi, 337, £9.60.

W. Sterling Edwards and Peter D. Edwards, Alexis Carrel. Visionary surgeon, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1974, 8vo, pp. xi, 143, illus., $5.00.

Hans A. Krebs and Julian H. Shelley, The creative process in science and medicine, Amsterdam, Excerpta Medica; New York, American Elsevier, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 138, $21.75 (paperback).

H. Wayne Morgan (editor), Yesterday's addicts. American society and drug abuse 1865–1920, Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. viii, 220, $7.95.

Beryl Rowland, Animals with human faces. A guide to animal symbolism, London, Allen & Unwin, 1974, pp. xix, 192, illus., £4.65.

Robert Reid, Marie Curie, London, Collins, 1974, 8vo, pp. 349, illus., £4.50.

Richard Cavendish, The powers of evil in western religion, magic and folk belief, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 299, £5.95.

Mary P. Weideman (editor), Microcirculation, Stroudsburg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1974, 4to, pp. xi, 429, illus., £13.90.

A. P. Elkin and N. W. G. Macintosh (editors), Grafton Elliot Smith. The man and his work, Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. x, 232, illus., £5.25.

Richard Wall, (compiler), Mortality in mid nineteenth century Britain, London, Gregg International, 1974, 8vo, pp. xvi, reprints: 567–601; viii, 168, £4.25.

James V. Warren (editor), Cardiovascular physiology, Stroudsburg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1975, 8vo, pp. xviii, 441, illus., £17.45.

M. L. Righini Bonelli and William R. Shea (editors), Reason, experiment, and mysticism in the Scientific Revolution, London, Macmillan, 1975, 8vo, pp. vi, 320, illus., £13.00.

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