LIST OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, ETC., 



ON MATTERS PERTAINING TO SCIENCE, PUBLISHED IN THE 

 UNITED STATES DURING THE YEAR 1857. 







Agassiz, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States. Vols. 

 I. and II. Boston : Little & Brown. 



Alchemy and the Alchemists. 12mo. Crosby and Nichols, Boston. 



American Almanac for 1858. Crosby & Nichols, Boston. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science. Proceedings for 1S5G, 10th 

 meeting, pp. 2GO. 



American Encyclopedia. Vol. First, Riplcy and Dana, Editors. Appleton & Co., 

 N. Y. 



Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Vol. II, Part 1. 

 138 pp. 4to, with numerous plates. Cambridge, 1S57. 



Bell, John, M. D. The Mineral and Thermal Springs of the United States and 

 Canada. 12mo. Parry & McMillan, Philadelphia. 



Bache, Prof. A. D. Coast Survey Report for 1856. Pub. Doc. 



Blake, W. P. Observations on the Physical Geography and Geology of the Coast 

 of California from Bodega Bay to San Diego. 



Blodget, Lorin. Climatology of the United Statss, and of the Temperate Latitudes 

 of the North American Continent. Embracing a full comparison of these, with 

 the Climatology of the Temperate Latitudes of Europe and Asia; with Isother- 

 mal and Rain Charts. 8vo. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. 



Branston, S. F. Handbook of Practical Receipts. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadel- 

 phia. 



Brodie, Sir Benjamin. Mind and Matter; or, a Series of Essays intended to Illus- 

 trate the Mutual Relations of the Physical Organization and the Mental Facul- 

 ties, with additional Notes by an American Editor. Putnam, N. Y. 



Burgess, N. G. The Ambrotype Manual, a treatise on the art of taking positive 

 photographs on glass. Fairchild & Co., N. Y. 



Campbell. A claim of priority in the discovery and naming of the excito-secretory 

 system of nerves, by Henry F. Campbell, M. D , Prof, of Comp. Anatomy, 

 Medical College of Georgia. Pamphlet. Augusta, Ga. 



Cook, Prof. Third Annual Report on the Geological Survey of the State of New 

 Jersey for the year 1853. 80 pp. 8vo. 



Cooke, Prof. J. P. Chemical Problems and Reactions, to accompany Stockhardt's 

 Elements of Chemistry. 130 pp. 12mo. Cambridge : John BartJett. 



Currey, R. O-, Dr. A Sketch of the Geology of Tennessee, with a description of its 

 soils, productions and palaeontology, pp. 128. 8vo., with map. 



Davis, Capt. C. H. Theory of the motion of the Heavenly Bodies moving about the 

 Sun in Conic Sections. A translation of Gauss's Theoria Motus. Boston, pp. 

 326, and tables pp. 36. 



Flint, C. L. A Practical Treatise on Grass and Forage Plants; Comprising their 



