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THE first annual volume of this new review of the exact natural sciences covers an immense territory in a very thorough manner; and it is evident that this, and the future volumes, will be an essential requisite in every physical library. Astronomy, relativity, statistical mechanics, the vibrations of rotating shafts, Nernst's thermal law, radiation, contact potential, chemical kinetics, photochemistry, electrolytic dissociation, X-ray spectroscopy, crystal structure, atomic and spectral theory, the theory of band spectra, photoelectricity and photoluminescence, and the periodic system of the elements are treated by authorities who have contributed to the recent remarkable developments of the subjects with which they deal. In this initial volume most of the reviewers have attempted to give a general account of the present state of the subjects reviewed, and the bibliographies which accompany their papers appear to be very comprehensive. The latter should prove very valuable; they cover the ground up to 1922, and include work by English and American physicists, the value of which is fully recognised in the text. Future volumes will be devoted more specifically to progress made during the year under review, the object being to give a general view of the progress made without details of individual publications.
Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften.
Herausgegeben von der Schriftleitung der Naturwissenschaften. Pp. iv + 403. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1922.) 10s. 5d.
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Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften. Nature 112, 648 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112648c0
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