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THE new volume of Contributions from the Physical Laboratories of Harvard University consists of reprints of sixty-five papers which have been issued from the laboratories during the years 1933-34. It forms the first volume of Series 2, and its pages are half an inch higher and wider than those of its predecessors. This increase allows papers from double column periodicals like the Physical Review and the Journal of Chemical Physics to be included without change of form, but papers from the one-column proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences look insignificant on so large a page. The work represented covers almost every branch of physicsgeneral and atomic physics being the theme of about twenty papers, light and electricity about fifteen each, heat about seven and sound and supersonics three, the classification being approximate only. One paper sketches an interesting course of laboratory work for senior students taking up atomic physics. The subjects which appear most often in the titles are the effects of high pressures on the physical properties of materials, and the line and band spectra of substances.
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Physics at Harvard. Nature 137, 980 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137980c0
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