Show B Y IT PRESIDENT PUBLISHES S LI H ES BOOK ON SCIENCE scientific tilli C R research and human Wi elfare by president franklin S harris in collaboration with mr newbern 1 I butt instructor in research division of tho the brigham young university has haa just been published by the mcmillan company of now new york tho the book is IB a volume ot of four hundred six pages and gives a striking picture of the changes in every day life which havil beer been brought about during the last hundred years as a result of scientific research doctor harris tells how science has discovered and controlled the ps AN causes ot of disease yellow fever diphtheria and typhoid how painless surgery has apen developed and human life lengthened he tells tho the story of the telegraph tha telephone and the wireless of the development ot of new methods of 0 transportation por tation by steam by electricity by the automobile and the aeroplane and of the beginnings of electric lighting he tells of the discovery of new methods in agriculture of the revolution of mining the great discoveries and the improvements in industry and in the home it Is the romance of mans conquest of the forces of nature |