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important a part in the operations, whether 

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The Q. P. Index Annual for 1882. Ban- 

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A valuable, usef ul, and convenient pub- 

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Inundations in Louisiana: Their Influence 

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Eleventh Cincinnati Industrial Exhibition : 

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Contributions to the History of Lake Bon- 

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The Yellowstone National Park : Manual for 

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Didactics in the State University of Iowa. By 

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Cranial Nerves. By W. O. Thrailkill. San 

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Old Maryland Manors. By John Johnson, 

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John no ward Payne Souvenir: Portrait and 

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A Recent Find in the Trenton Gravels. By C. 

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Reports of the Trustees of the Sanitary Im- 

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Address of Vice-President A. H. Tattle, Sec- 

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How to make Photographs. New York : E. 

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Handbook of Medical Electricity. By A. M. 

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Planting Trees in Sehool-Oronnds. Wash- 

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Normal Condition of Cellular Structure and 

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Zoological Society of Philadelphia, Eleventh 

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Industrial Art in Schools. By Charles G. Le- 

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The Impress of Nationalities upon the City 

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The Citizens' Law and Order v LeaETie of 

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Worcester Free Institute, Statement. Wor- 

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Worcester Free Institute, Statistical Infor- 

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Variations of Barometric Measurements of 

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The Library Journal, March-April, 1883. New 

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United States Bureau of Education : Its Work 

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Clinical History and Localization of Perine- 

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Heart-Puncture and Heart-Suture as Thera- 

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Preliminary Report on the Venoms of Ser- 

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Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists' Field Club, 

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The Biographer. Illustrated. New York : 

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Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

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Notes on Copper Implements from Mexico. 

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The Philippine Islands. By Samuel Kneeland, 

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The Magazine of American History. With 

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On the Conservation of Solar Energy. By C. 

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Deep Breathing. By Sophia Marquise A. 

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A Visit to Ceylon. By Ernst Haeckel. Trans- 

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A Book abont Roses. By S. Reynolds Hale. 

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Golden Sands : A Collection of Little Coun- 

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Practical Carpentry. By Frederick T. Hoder- 

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Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic, with Ex- 

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Eve's Daughters; or, Common Sense for 

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Lectures on Medical Nursing. By J. Wallace 

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