(1) A Comprehensive Treatise on Engineering Geology (2) Géologie appliquée (3) Useful Aspects of Geology

Abstract

WATERTIGHT compartments are obsolescent in modern scientific thought, so that an increasing number of partnerships are found as in biochemistry, biophysics, the use of X-rays in medicine, crystal structure and industry, and the application of physical chemistry to road and building problems. The dangers of the over-specialisation of the scientific worker, so often debated and deplored in the columns of NATURE, have been much to the fore in recent years ; and the reviewer well remembers a remark made in his student days by the then Provost of University College, London, to a gathering of undergraduates, in which it was pointed out that the difficulties experienced by graduates in finding employment was largely caused by the fact that they had specialised in one branch of science only.

(1) A Comprehensive Treatise on Engineering Geology

By Dr. Cyril S. Fox. Pp. xv + 392 + 18 plates. (London: The Technical Press, Ltd., 1935.) 35s. net.

(2) Géologie appliquée

Par Prof. E. Raguin. Pp. 403. (Paris: Masson et Cie, 1934.) 38 francs.

(3) Useful Aspects of Geology:

an Introduction to Geological Science for Engineers, Mining Men, Prospectors and all interested in the Mineral Industries. By Dr. S. J. Shand. Second edition, revised and amplified. Pp. x + 183. (London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1934.) 6s. net.