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Wilson. Works by the late GEORGE WILSON, M.D., F.R.S.E., 

 Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh : 



RELIGIO CHEMICI. With a Vignette beautifully engraved after 

 a design by Sir NOEL PATON. Crown Svo. 8s. 6d. 



1 ' George Wilson" says the Preface to this volume, ' 'had it in his heart 

 for many years to write a book corresponding to the Religio Medici 

 of Sir Thomas Browne, with the title Religio Chemici. Several 

 of the Essays in this volume were intended to form chapters of it. 

 These fragments being in most cases like finished gems waiting to be 

 set, some of them are now given in a collected form to his friends 

 and the public. In living remembrance of his purpose, the name 

 chosen by himself has been adopted, although the original design 

 can be but very faintly represented" The Contents of the volume 

 are: " Chemistry and Natural Theology." " The Chemistry of 

 the Stars; an Argument touching the Stars and their Inhabitants. " 

 " Chemical Final Causes; as illustrated by the presence of Phos- 

 phorus, Nitrogen, and Iron in the Higher Sentient Organisms." 

 1 ' Robert Boyle. " " Wollaston ." ' 'Life a nd Discoveries of Dalton . ' ' 

 " Thoughts on the Resurrection; an Address to Medical Students." 

 "A more fascinating volume" the Spectator says, "has seldom 

 fallen into our hands." The Freeman says: "These papers arc all 

 valuable and deeply interesting. The production of a profound 

 thinker, a suggestive and eloquent writer, and a man whose piety 

 and genius went hand in hand." 



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" While a complete view of the progress of the greatest of human 

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Win slow. FORCE AND NATURE : ATTRACTION AND 

 REPULSION. The Radical Principles of Energy graphically 

 discussed in their Relations to Physical and Morphological De- 

 velopment. By C. F. WINSLOW, M.D. Svo. 



The author having for long investigated Nature in many directions, 

 has ever felt unsatisfied with the physical foundations upon which 

 some branches of science have been so long compelled to rest. The 

 question, he believes, must have occurred to many astronomers and 



