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MUCH credit is due to the editors of this “Encyclopaedia” for the design and execution of their work. So many subjects may be regarded as “technical and scientific” that to endeavour to afford appropriate information upon all matters pertaining to them, not only for scientific workers and technologists, but also for intelligent inquirers among the general public, would seem almost an impossible task. So far, however, as is practicable within the limits of three volumes, and judging by the contents of the two volumes already published, the editors will achieve their purpose. In the present volume, for example, sixty-seven pages are devoted to electrical subjects from “Electric Cables” to “Electrostatic Units”. Glass and glass manufacture occupy twenty pages; dyes, eight pages; hormones, four pages (we note, by the way, that the word endocrine is not indexed); glucosides, eight pages; furnaces, nine pages; gem-stones, six pages; and geophysics, four pages. We have tested the volume for many words and terms used in various branches of science and technology, and have rarely been disappointed. Many biological terms are included but no attempt is made to cover this whole field, though “commodities of botanical and zoological origin are named and described”. This accounts, perhaps, for the omission of ‘gene’ and ‘genetics'.
Hutchinson's Technical and Scientific Encyclopaedia:
Terms, Processes, Data, in Pure and Applied Science, Construction and Engineering, the Principal Manufacturing Industries, the Skilled Trades; with a Working Bibliography, naming Three Thousand Books and other Sources of Information, under Subjects. Edited by C. F. Tweney I. P. Shirshov. In 3 vols. Vol. 2: Direction of Rotation to Hydrogen-Ion Concentration. Pp. ii + 673–1344. (London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers), Ltd., 1935.) 28s.
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Hutchinson's Technical and Scientific Encyclopaedia. Nature 136, 166 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136166c0
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