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Ditto Lieut. Maury's Sailing Directions. Bureau of 



Ordnance and Hydrography. 

 Ditto A Revision of the North American Astaci, with 



Observations on their Habits and Geographical 



Distribution. Girard. 

 The Council of the 

 American Philosophi- 

 cal Society Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 



Vol V. 

 Ditto Transactions of the American Philosophical Society* 



Vol. X, New Series, Part 2nd. 

 The Council of the 

 Royal Society, London.. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Nos. 1 and 2, 



Vol. VII. 

 Royal Cornwall Poly- 

 technic Society Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 



EcoLE DES Mines Annales des Mines. 



Historic Society of Lan- 

 cashire AND Cheshire.. Proceedings of the Historic Society of Lancashire 



and Cheshire, Vol. V. 

 The Author On the Mutual Attraction or Repulsion between 



two Electrified Spherical Conductors. By 



G. W. Thompson, F.R.S. 

 Ditto On Transient Electric Currents. By G. W. 



Thompson, F.R.S. 

 Geological Society, 

 Dublin Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, 



Vol. v., Part 3rd. 1853. 

 The Author Rubian, and its Products of Decomposition, Part 



2nd. By E. Schunck, Esq., Ph.D., F.R.S., 



&c. 

 The Author Synopsis of Meteorological Observations at the 



Observatory of Whitehaven in 1852. By 



J. F. Miller, Esq., F.R.S., &c. 



Ditto Ditto ditto in 1853. 



Ditto On the Fall of Rain in the Lake District during 



1852 and 1853. By J. F. Miller, Esq., 



F.R.S., &c. 

 Ditto Remarks on a Singular Iridescent Phenomenon 



seen on Windermere Lake, October 24, 1851. 



By J. F. Miller, Esq., F.R S., &c. 



