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Based on a series of broadcast talks the book wisely retains the simple straightforward presentation which was necessary in. the talks. 'There is: a commendable absence of technical terms which would make reading difficult, the sketches and photographs are clear and interesting. Some of. the rather odd facts mentioned, such asthe phenomenon of the' eye's "blind spot" will be familiar to many readers but only the few are aware of the way in which the eye distinguishes between different colours, how sound waves are transmitted to the-brain by elec trical disturbances in the nerves,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.