A BOOK ON LIFE
■'-'Everyday Biology." By Prof. J. Arv thur Thomson, of Aberdeen University. ■ London: >Hodder arid. StougliI ---'tan:--.- - ' :y-'- ' ■••' ■- - Uj;;. Professor Thomson in this little manual fully meets the object of. the publishers, which is stated, to. be " to supply inbrief form, simply, written. introductions |to the study of ..,'>/ science"; in some degree to satisfy tr/at ever-increas-.mg demand for knowledge/which is one of the characteristics of our time.- The language used in "Everyday Biology " is unmistakably plain and exceedingly helpful to those who have, neither time nor opportunity to study.the subject' in the laboratory. : The many.' illustrations rf points that Professor Thomson would have fully understood are interesting and well chosen. " Everyday Biology ", i a a book for the pocket, to be read and re-read, paragraph.by paragraph, at odd": moments. Professor. Thomson has a most attractive style of writing that will win him many and various friends among his readers. • ■ * v ...
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Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 17
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153A BOOK ON LIFE Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 17
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