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IT is impossible within the limits of a short notice to describe even briefly more than a few of the scientific articles in this new volume of the “Encyclopædia Britannica.”Many subjects of interest to men of science are dealt with, the following being among the contributions:—Cholera, Dr. A. Shadwell; chronograph, Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith; biblical chronology, Prof. S. R. Driver and Mr. C. H. Turner; coal, Mr. H. Bauerman; Cœlentera, Dr. G. H. Fowler; colours of animals, Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S.; combinatorial analysis, Major P. A. MacMahon, F.R.S.; comets, Dr. E. S. Holden; compass, Captain E. W. Creak; condensation of gases, Prof. J. D. van der Waals; conduction of heat, Prof H. L. Callendar, F.R.S.; copper, Dr. J. Douglas; cremation, Sir Henry Thompson, Bart.; Crustacea, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S.; Ctenophora, Dr. G. H. Fowler; cuttlefish, Rev. J. F. Blake; cytology, Mr. Harold W. T. Wager; dairy, Dr. W. Fream; Darwin, Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S.; dietetics, Dr. W. O. Atwater; differential equations, Mr. H. F. Baker, F.R.S.; diffraction gratings, the late Prof. H. A. Rowland; diffusion of gases, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.; dimensions of units, Dr. J. Larmor, F.R.S.; diphtheria, Dr. A. Shadwell; du Bois-Reymond, Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., F.R.S.; dyeing, Prof. J. J. Hummel; dynamo, Mr. C. C. Hawkins; analytical dynamics, Prof. Horace Lamb, F.R.S.; dynamometer, Prof. W. E. Dalby; figure of the earth, M. R. Radau; earthquakes, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S.; Echinodermata, Dr. F. A. Bather; Echiuroidea, Mr. A. E. Shipley; eclipse, Prof. Simon Newcomb; economic entomology, Prof. F. V. Theobald; education, Sir Joshua Fitch and Dr. N. M. Butler; eel, Mr. J. T. Cunningham; Egypt (physical geography), Major H. G. Lyons; and Egyptology, Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., and Mr. F. LI. Griffith; and elastic systems, Prof. A. E. H. Love, F.R.S.

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The Third of the New Volumes, being vol. xxvii. of the Complete Work. Chi-Eld. Pp. xx + 744. (London: A. and C. Black, and The Times, 1902.)