604 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



MATHEMATICS. 



London: Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching. 

 Syllabus of Plane Geometry (corresponding to Euclid, Books I.-VL). Pre- 

 pared by the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching. 

 London: Macmillan. 1875. 



[Nature, XIII., 102, 103, 1875.] 



Walter (William). A Course in Descriptive Geometry for the Use 

 of Colleges and Scientific Schools. Boston : L. Prang & Co. 

 [Am. Journ. S. and A. (3), X. } 488, 1875.] 



ASTRONOMY. 



DICTIONARY. 



Klein (Hermann J.). Populare Astronomische Encyclopadie. Astro- 

 nomisches Handworterbuch. Eine lexicographisch geordnete Erklarung 

 der in der Himmelskunde und den darauf beziiglichen Theilen der ubrigen 

 Naturwissenschaften vorkemmenden Begriffe, und Ausdrucke nebst bio- 

 graphischen Notizen uber die hierbei erwahnten Forscher. Fiir Freunde der 

 Himmelskunde. Mit 58 Holzschnitten. Heilbronn : Verlag von Gefr. 

 Henninger. 1874. (8vo, IV., 480 pp.) 



GENERAL. 



Plummer (John Isaac). Introduction to Astronomy. For the Use 

 of Science Classes and Elementary and Middle Class Schools. By John 

 Isaac Plummer, Astronomical Observer to the University of Durham. New 

 York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. (1873, lGmo, 174 pp., 1 pi.) 



(Putnam's Elementary Science Series.) 



Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.). Astronomy. By J. Norman Lockyer, 

 F.R.S., Correspondent of the Institute of France. With Illustrations. 

 New York : D. Appleton and Company. 1875. (12mo, xv., 120 pp.) 



(Science Primers.) 



SOLAR SYSTEM. 



Alexander (Stephen). Statement and Exposition of Certain Harmonies 

 of the Solar System. Washington. 1875. 



(Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, No. 280. Washington. 1875.) 

 [Popular (The) Science Monthly, VII., 624-626, 1875.] 



STARS. 



Herschel (Sir J. F. W.). A Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double 

 Stars, arranged in the Order of Right Ascension by the late Sir J. F. W. 

 Herschel, Bart., and edited by the Rev. R. Main, M.A., F.R.S., Radcliffe 

 Observer, and the Rev. C. Pritchard, M.A., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of 

 Astronomy in the University of Oxford. London. 1874. 



(Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. XL.) 

 [Popular (The) Science Monthly, VII., 374, 375, 1875.] 



