DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCES IN PARALLEL OUTLINES -- PRACTICAL
MATHEMATICS -- ARITHEMATIC AND ITS MODERN APPLICATIONS -- THE ARITHMETIC
OF BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL TRANSACTIONS -- CORPORATIONS,
STOCKS AND BONDS -- TABLE OF COMMERCIAL LAWS -- WEIGHTS AND MEASURES --
PHYSICS: LAWS AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER -- MECHANICS AND INVENTIONS --
SOUND -- HEAT -- LIGHT AND COLOR -- ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM --
CHEMISTRY: THEORY OF CHEMISTRY -- TABLE OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS -- THE
CHEMISTRY OF COMMON THINGS -- REMARKABLE INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES --
RECENT SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS, X-RAYS AND RADIUM, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY,
WIRELESS TELEPHONE, AEROPLANES, SUBMARINES, AIRSHIPS, AND EXPLOSIVES.
=⁂Books of Reference.=--BIOLOGY.--Brooks: _Foundations of Zoology_.
Morgan: _Animal Behavior_. Pearson: _The Grammar of Science_.
Spencer: _Principles of Biology_. Thomson: _The Science of Life_.
Verworn: _General Physiology_. Weismann: _The Germ-Plasm_.
PHYSICS.--Ames: _General Physics_. Ames and Bliss: _Manual of
Experiments_. Hoadley: _Measurements in Magnetism and Electricity_.
Preston: _Theory of Heat_ and _Theory of Light_. Poynting and
Thomson: _Heat_. Tyndal: _Light_. Schuster: _Theory of Optics_.
Barker: _Physics_. Merrill: _Theoretical Mechanics_. Helmholtz:
_Sensations of Tone_. Kapp: _Electric Transmission of Energy_.
Crocker: _Electric Lighting_. Sewell: _Elements of Electrical
Engineering_. Jackson: _Elements of Electricity and Magnetism_ and
_Alternating Currents and Alternating Current Machinery_.
CHEMISTRY.--Remsen: _Introduction to the Study of Chemistry_ and
_Inorganic Chemistry_. Roscoe: _Lessons in Elementary Chemistry_.
Wurtz: _Elements of Modern Chemistry_. Ostwald: _Inorganic
Chemistry_. Alexander Smith: _Laboratory Outline of General
Chemistry_ and _General Inorganic Chemistry_. Wiley: _Chemistry of
Foods_ and _Agricultural Chemistry_. Roscoe and Schorlemmer:
_Treatise on Chemistry_. Watts: _Dictionary of Chemistry_. Thorp:
_Industrial Chemistry_.
(Abridged in the Concise Edition.)