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ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; 



Or, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art. By DAVID A. WELLS, A. M. 12mo, 

 cloth, 81.25. 



This -work, commenced in the year 1850, and issued in the month of January, annually, embraces 

 an enumeration and description of every important Invention, Discovery, or Scientific Theory, re- 

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 with a fine portrait of some person distinguished for his attainments in science and art. 



LAKE SUPERIOR; 



Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals. By L. AGASSIZ, and others. One 

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THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. 







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COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



By Prof. C.^H. Yox SIEBOLD and H. STATTJTIUS. Translated, with Notes, Ad- 

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This is unquestionably the best and most complete work of its class ever yet published. 



WORKS BY HUGH MILLER. 



THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR; 

 or, The Asterolepis of Stromness. With 

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 Louis AGASSIZ. 12mo, cloth, 81-00. 



MY SCHOOLS and SCHOOLMASTERS ; 



or, The Story of my Education. With 

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This is a personal narrative of a deeply interest- 



THE OLD RED SANDSTONE; or, New 



Walks in an Old Field. Illustrated with 

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND 

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A thrillinerly interesting, and very instructive 

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 the most remarkable men of the age. -in the language. 



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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



Its Typical Forms and Primeval Distribution. By CHARLES HAMILTON SMITH : 

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