Edinburgh's Place in Scientific Progress. Prepared for the Edinburgh meeting of the British Association by the Local Editorial Committee.

[Edinburgh] British Association for the Advancement of Science, Edinburgh.

Published by W. & R. Chambers, 1921., Edinburgh & London:, 1921

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Small 8vo. xvi, 263, [1] pp. Color frontispiece, 8 plates. Original full brownish-red black-stamped cloth. Embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Mount Wilson Observatory. Very good +. Cargill Gilston Knott, D.Sc., F.R.S., headed a committee consisting of Professor J. H. Ashworth, D.Sc., F.R.S., E.B. Bailey, B.A., F.G.S., W.B. Blaikie, LL.D., Marion I. Newbigen, D.Sc., Professor R.A. Sampson, M.A., F.R.S. Contains 16 chapters relating to all the sciences: mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, geology, engineering, zoology, oceanography, botany, forestry, agriculture, geography, anthropology, medicine, surgery, dentistry, political economy, psychology, education, social reform. / The contributors: E.B. Bailey, Thomas Hudson Beare (British civil engineer 1859-1940), George Goudie Chisholm (Scottish geographer. 1850-1930), John Dixon Comrie (Scottish physician 1875-1939), J.H. Cunningham, Leonard Dobbin (chemist 1858â "1952), James Drever, William Guy, W.A. Herdman, Cargill Gilston Knott, A.P. Laurie, Alexander Miles, Nora Milnes, J. Shield Nicholson, James Ritchie, Arthur Robinson, R.A. Sampson, W.W. Smith, A.E. Sprague, D.R. Steuart, Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell (1866-1956), Sir James Anderson Scott Watson (Scottish agriculturalist 1889-1966), Andrew Watt, F.R.S.E. (meteorologist 1869-1929).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edinburgh's Place in Scientific Progress. Prepared for the Edinburgh meeting of the British Association by the Local Editorial Committee.
• Publisher: W. & R. Chambers, 1921., Edinburgh & London:
• Publication Date: 1921
• Binding: Hardcover