" Recreative Science," No. 7, will be Published January 31st, 1860. 



Of No. 6. 



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OtTE Feiend the EoBiy. By Shikley Hibberd 181 

 The Anecdote History of Photogeaphy. By 



Charles Maybijey Archee 187 



Sportive Exercises upon Musical Notation. 



Part I. By W. Newman 190 



Reflection feoji Polished Sitbfaces. By J. 



A. Davies 194 



A Catalogue of all the Comets whose Orbits 



HAVE hitherto BEEN COMPUTED. By G. W. 



Y. Chambers 195 



Elementary Meteoeology. By E. J. Lowe... 197 

 A Plaything of the Tides. By W. C. L. Martin 201 

 Mosses in Fern-cases and Aquaria. By F. Y. B. 203 



Coins of the Seleucid^ Kings of Syria. By 



H. Noel Humphreys 



Herbarium of Mosses. By Frederick Y. Brocas 



How TO USE the Telescope 



Meteorology of January 



Astronomical Observations for January, 1860 



Things of the Season — January , 



Me. Noteworthy's Corner 



The Atmospheric Clock 



Birds in Winter— A Query 



Efflorescence 



Celts in the Deift 



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B. C. CLAroSTOX. — The best cheap work on British Butterflies 

 and Moths is Mr. Stainton's Manual. The best coloured represen- 

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 Work. Mr. H. N. Humphrey's "Genera of British Moths and 

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