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PIONEERS OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA.
Sketches of their Lives and Scientific Work.
Edited and revised by WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS, M.D.
With Portraits. 8vo, Cloth, $4.00.
Impelled solely by an enthusiastic love of Nature, and
neither asking nor receiving outside aid, these early
workers opened the way and initiated the movement through
which American science has reached its present commanding
position. This book gives some account of these men, their
early struggles, their scientific labors, and, whenever
possible, something of their personal characteristics. This
information, often very difficult to obtain, has been
collected from a great variety of sources, with the utmost
care to secure accuracy. It is presented in a series of
sketches, some fifty in all, each with a single exception
accompanied with a well-authenticated portrait.
"Fills a place that needed filling, and is likely to be
widely read."--_N.Y. Sun_.
"It is certainly a useful and convenient volume, and
readable too, if we judge correctly of the degree of
accuracy of the whole by critical examination of those cases
in which our own knowledge enables us to form an opinion....
In general, it seems to us that the handy volume is
specially to be commended for setting in just historical
perspective many of the earlier scientists who are neither
very generally nor very well known."--_New York Evening
Post_.
"A wonderfully interesting volume. Many a young man will
find it fascinating. The compilation of the book is a work
well done, well worth the doing."--_Philadelphia Press_.
"One of the most valuable books which we have
received."--_Boston Advertiser_.
"A book of no little educational value.... An extremely
valuable work of reference."--_Boston Beacon_.
"A valuable handbook for those whose work runs on these same
lines, and is likely to prove of lasting interest to those
for whom '_les documents humain_' are second only to history
in importance--nay, are a vital part of history."--_Boston
Transcript_.
"A biographical history of science in America, noteworthy
for its completeness and scope.... All of the sketches are
excellently prepared and unusually interesting."--_Chicago
Record_.
"One of the most valuable contributions to American
literature recently made.... The pleasing style in which
these sketches are written, the plans taken to secure
accuracy, and the information conveyed, combine to give them
great value and interest. No better or more inspiring
reading could be placed in the hands of an intelligent and
aspiring young man."--_New York Christian Work_.
"A book whose interest and value are not for to-day or
to-morrow, but for indefinite time."--_Rochester Herald_.
"It is difficult to imagine a reader of ordinary
intelligence who would not be entertained by the book....
Conciseness, exactness, urbanity of tone, and
interestingness are the four qualities which chiefly impress
the reader of these sketches."--_Buffalo Express_.
"Full of interesting and valuable matter."--_The Churchman_.
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PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION, from Thales to Huxley.
By EDWARD CLODD, President of the Folk-Lore Society;
Author of "The Story of Creation,"
"The Story of 'Primitive' Man," etc.
With Portraits. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50.
"The mass of interesting material which Mr. Clodd has got
together and woven into a symmetrical story of the progress
from ignorance and theory to knowledge and the intelligent
recording of fact is prodigious.... The 'goal' to which Mr.
Clodd leads us in so masterly a fashion is but the starting
point of fresh achievements, and, in due course, fresh
theories. His book furnishes an important contribution to a
liberal education."--_London Daily Chronicle_.
"We are always glad to meet Mr. Clodd. He is never dull; he
is always well informed, and he says what he has to say with
clearness and precision.... The interest intensifies as Mr.
Clodd attempts to show the part really played in the growth
of the doctrine of evolution by men like Wallace, Darwin,
Huxley, and Spencer.... We commend the book to those who
want to know what evolution really means."--_London Times_.
"This is a book which was needed.... Altogether, the book
could hardly be better done. It is luminous, lucid, orderly,
and temperate. Above all, it is entirely free from personal
partisanship. Each chief actor is sympathetically treated,
and friendship is seldom or never allowed to overweight
sound judgment."--_London Academy_.
"We can assure the reader that he will find in this work a
very useful guide to the lives and labors of leading
evolutionists of the past and present. Especially
serviceable is the account of Mr. Herbert Spencer and his
share in rediscovering evolution, and illustrating its
relations to the whole field of human knowledge. His
forcible style and wealth of metaphor make all that Mr.
Clodd writes arrestive and interesting."--_London Literary
World_.
"Can not but prove welcome to fair-minded men.... To read it
is to have an object-lesson in the meaning of evolution....
There is no better book on the subject for the general
reader.... No one could go through the book without being
both refreshed and newly instructed by its masterly survey
of the growth of the most powerful idea of modern
times."--_The Scotsman_.