A Modern Physical Laboratory

Abstract

IN December of last year were opened at Gttingen a number of floe new buildings to accommodate the different ubdivisions of the physical department of the University An account of these has just been published in a volume issued under the auspices of the Göingen Association for the Promotion of Applied Physics and Mathematics.¹ This book, a handsome quarto of 200 pages containing numerous illustrations and plans, gives a graphic idea of the elaboration which is now considered necessary for the successful carrying out of work in the different branches of this most rapidly developing science.