Science in the university,

by members of the faculties of the University of California.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: University of California, Berkeley
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1944.
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Notes:"Published in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the University of California."

"References" throughout.

Physical description: x p., 1 ℓ., 332 p. incl. illus. (incl. maps) plates, tables, diagrs. (1 double) 24 cm.

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Table of Contents:
Driving back the dark, by R. G. Aitken.
Cosmic rays; report of recent progress, 1936-1941, by J. R. Oppenheimer.
Molecular forces and solubility, by J. H. Hildebrand.
The chemistry of the amino acids and proteins, by C. L. A. Schmidt.
The task of the organic chemist, by G. R. Robertson.
What makes the barometric pressure rise or fall? By Jakob Bjerknes.
The California current, by H. U. Sverdrup.
Evolution of a Sierran landscape, by W. C. Putnam.
Subsidence and elevation in the Los Angeles region, by U. S. Grant.
A modern conception of living material, by O. L. Sponsler.
On some facts pertinent to the theory of the gene, by R. B. Goldschmidt.
Longevity in organisms, by C. B. Lipman.
The study of the sea and its relation to man, by C. E. ZoBell.
Trees and history, by R. W. Chaney.
Ornithology of the looking glass, by Loye Miller.
General aspects of the study of plant nutrition, by D. R. Hoagland.
Physiology as an independent science, by J. M. D. Olmsted.
The contribution of psychology, by Knight Dunlap.
Life, morals, and Huxley's "Evolution and ethics," by S. J. Holmes.