The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80
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The History of Chemistry. Vol I.: 2000 B.C. to 1850 A.D. By Sir Edward; Thorpe, C.B., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.; Professor-Elect and Director of the Chemical Laboratories of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington; author of "A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry," "Essays in Historical Chemistry," "Humphrey Davy: Poet and Philosopher," etc. 156 pp., with Illustrations; cloth, 1s. net, by post is. 3d.
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The History of Chemistry. Vol II. 1850: A.D. to date.
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The History of Old Testament Criticism.
By Professor Archibald Duff, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Theology in the United College, Bradford.
Volumes in Preparation.
The History of Geography.
By Dr. John Scott Keltie. F.R.G.S., F.S.S., F.S.A., Hon. Mem.
Geographical Societies of Paris. Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva, etc.; editor of the Statesman's Year Book, etc.
The History of Geology.
By Horace B. Woodward. F.R.S., F.G.S.; late Assistant-Director of Geological Survey of England and Wales.
The History of Biology.
By Professor L. C. Miall, F.R.S., Professor of Biology Leeds University, 1876-1907; Fullerian Professor, Royal Institute, 1904-5.
The History of Anthropology.
By Professor A. C. Haddon, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., Lecturer in Ethnology, Cambridge and London; author of "Study of Man," "Magic and Fetishism," etc.
The History of New Testament Criticism.
By F. C. Conybeare, M.A., late Fellow and Praelector of Univ. Coll., Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy; Doctor of Theology, honoris causa, of Giessen; Officier d'Academic; author of "Old Armenian Texts of Revelation," etc.