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Ingår i tidskriften Endeavour. A quarterly review designed to record the progress of the sciences in the service of mankind. Volume VIII. January 1949. Number 29, sid. 11-17. Illustrerad med tre färgplanscher och ett s/v porträtt av James Cook. Tillsammans 5 nummer (17, 20, 29, 30 och 31) av tidskriften bundet i ett svart klotband med dekorativt pärmpapper med ryggtitel i guld upptill Endeavour och Sven Dahl nertill. Rikligt illustrerad i färg och s/v. [28x21 cm]. Fint skick. Innehåll - se nedan för varje nummer. - Tidskriften 'Endeavour. A quarterly review designed to record the progress of the sciences in the service of mankind' publicerades 1942-1976 i Oxford, England. Innehåller: [Bundet med;] Vol. V. January 1946. Number 17. Contains: The future of man, by E. J. Holmyard; Species and evolution, by julian S. Huxley; William Curtis, founder of The Botanical Magazine, by J. W. Hunkin; Electric lighting by luminescence, by C. C. Aperson; Some aspects of dairy bacteriology, by T. R. Mattrick; A cycle of fern anatomy, by C. W. Wardlaw; The metabolism of the oestrogenic hormone, by G. F. Marrian. [Bundet med;] Vol V. October 1946. Numder 20. Contains: The method and scope of science, by E. J. Holmyard; Some recent aspects of meteorology, by Nelson Johnson; Tycho Brahe, 1546-1604, by Herbert Dingle; The measurement of coloured light, by W. T. Walsh; The museum as an aid to popular science, by F. S. Wallis; The fluorescense of organic compounds, by N. Campbell; The values of sceince, by E. F. Caldin. [Bundet med;] Vol VIII. January 1949. Number 29. Contains: The Philosophical Magazine, by E. J. Holmyard; Mechanism of chemical reactions, by Michael Polanyi; Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., by Maurice Holmes; Leaf shape and physiological age, by Eric Ashby; Some aspects of terpene chemistry, by L. N. Owen and J. L. Somonsen; Curare, by A. R. McIntyre; Some aspects of modern laboratory design, by J. Yule Bogue; Blpdd-pigments, by H. Munro Fox. [Bundet med;] Vol VIII. April 1949. Number 30. Contains: Pierre Simon de Laplace, 1749-1827, by E. J. Holmyard; Genetic particles, by C. D. Darlington; Amedeo Avogadro, by M. Giua; Modern calculating machines, by D. R. Hartree; Draughtsmanship in zoological work, by Geoffrey Lapage; Foetal haemoglobin, by J. C. Kendrew; Fungus diseases of fruit, by R. W. Marsch; Recent developments in the chemistry of perfumes, by R. W. Moncrieff. [Bundet med;] Vol VIII. July 1949. Number 31. Contains: Alum: Medium of history, E. J. Holmyard; Nitrogen metabolism in plants, by W. H. Pearsall; The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, av Harriette Chick; Decay of timber by fungi, by W. P. K. Findlay; Flight at supersonic speeds, by S. G. Hooker; The garden at Tresco, by J. W. Hunkin; Science in the detection of crime, by H. S. Holden; Scientific education in the United States, by F. A. Philbrick; High-polymer molecules in solution, by A. R. Miller. Ämnesord: Polar, Antarktis, Antarctis, Polarområdena, Polar, The Polar Regions, James Cook, Botanik, Trädgård, Zoologi, Svamp, Flyg, Kriminologi, Anatomi, Medicin
