IF the publication of text-books is a sign of increased attention to the branches of science with which they deal, chemistry must be making great progress; for no week, and scarcely a day, passes ...

THE general character of this widely known textbook was described in the review of the first edition which was published in NATURE for April.14, 1898 (vol. lvii. p. 559). In the present issue the ...

Australia's modest Nobel Prize winner has gone back to work where he was treated to a vanilla slice by university colleagues ...