Stories of scientific discovery / by D.B. Hammond.

Cambridge [England] : The University Press, 1923.

vii, 2 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portraits ; 21 cm

Copy 1 Note: Dedication to Sir Henry Wellcome from Sister Romney on Fly-leaf.

Priestley and Lavoisier and the chemical revolution.--The life and adventures of Benjamin Thompson, count Rumford.--William Herschel and the discovery of the planet Uranus.--Fabre, poet of science.--Faraday and his electrical discoveries.--The Curies and the discovery of radium.--Darwin and Wallace and the evolutionary theory.--Pasteur and his work on germs and inoculations.