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 8HERRATT & HUGHES MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS. PHYSICAL SERIES. No. I. THE PHYSICAL LABORATORIES OF THE UNIVER- SITY OF MANCHESTER. A record of 25 years' work. DemySvo, pp. viii. 142, wita a Photogravure, 10 Plates, and 4 Plans. 5b. net. (Publication No. 13, 1906.) This volume contains an illustrated description of the Physical, Electrical Engineering, and Electro-Chemistry Laboratories of the Manchester University, also a complete Biographical and Biblio- graphical Record of those who have worked in the Physios Depart- ment of the University during the past 25 years. "The book is excellently got up, and contains a description of the department of physics and its equipment, a short biographical sketch of the Professor with a list of his scientific writings and a well-executed portrait and a record of the career of students and others who have passed through Dr. Schuster's hands. Alumni of Owens will welcome the volume as an interesting link with their alma mater." — Gflasgow Herald. " This interesting and valuable contribution to the history of the Manchester University also contains several illustrations, and forms the first of the 'physical series' of the publications of the University of Manchester." — The Times. " It is a memorial of which any man would be justly proud, and the University of which he is both an alumnus and a professor may well share that pride." — Manchester Guardian. No. II. LABORATORY EXERCISES IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. By J. N. Peing, D.Sc. Crown 8vo.' 4s. net. (Publication No. 64, 1912.) PUBLIC HEALTH SERIES. No. I. ARCHIVES OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. Edited by A. Sheridan Dblbpine, M.Sc, M.B., Ch.M., Director of the Laboratory and Proctor Professor of Comparative Pathology and Bacteriology. Crown 4to. pp. iv. 451. £l. Is. net. (Publication No. 12, 1906.) "The University of Manchester has taken the important and highly commendable step of commencing the publication of ihe archives of its Public Health Laboratory, and has issued, under the able and judicious editorship of Professor Sheridan Delepine, the first volume of a series that promises to be of no small interest and value alike to members of the medical profession and to those of the laity. . . . Original communi- cations bearing upon diseases which ar^ prevalent in the districts snr rounding Manchester, or dealing with food- and water-supplies, air, disposal of refuse, sterilisation and disinfection and kindred subjects, will be published in future volumes; and it is manifest that these, as they successively appear, will form a constantly increasing body of trust- worthy information upon subjects which are not only of the highest interest to the profession but of supreme importance to the public." — The Lancet. , Soho Square, LondoB, W. 21 G