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Q. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



SELECT WORKS ON SCIENCE PUBLISHED DURING 1875. 



The following list of books relating to the several depart- 

 ments of science contains only the smaller portion of those 

 published during the past year, but, it is believed, embraces 

 the most important. The limitations of the Record preclude 

 an exhaustive bibliographical enumeration or plan ; nor, 

 indeed, is this required by readers. "Works only have been 

 introduced that have features of general interest to com- 

 mend them, especially such as have been more or less fa- 

 vorably noticed in the principal journals devoted to general 

 science, and mention will be found of the places in the sev- 

 eral journals where criticisms are contained. These refer- 

 ences will serve in lieu of the critical notices which were 

 proposed in the previous volume for the present Record ; 

 experience having shown that, in order to do justice to the 

 several works and to ourselves, more space would be re- 

 quired than could be well spared for the purpose. 



Whenever the volumes themselves were accessible, the 

 titles and collations have been taken directly from them. 

 In many cases, however, the compiler lias been obliged to 

 depend solely on the titles contained in the journals in which 

 the volumes have been noticed, or upon booksellers' an- 

 nouncements. All the scientific works sent to the editor 

 of the Record have been, and will hereafter be enumerated, 

 whether specially noticed in the journals in question or not. 

 The responses to the invitation for the transmission of copies 

 to the editor for notice have been numerous, but many im- 

 portant publications have been withheld. In the interest of 

 accuracy and completeness of enumeration, the editor re- 

 news his request for copies of new works for notice in future 

 numbers of the Record's Bibliography. 



For the notices of books, those journals have been referred 

 to which are most generally accessible to ordinary readers 

 on account of the nature of their circulation. They are : 



(1.) The Academy : a Record of Literature, Science, and 

 Art. London. (Weekly.) 



