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NEW WORKS FOR THE LIBRARY ON CHEMISTRY. 

 FOR THE TEACHER, STUDENT, OR PRACTICAL CHEMIST. 



Outlines of Industrial Chemistry. An Introduction to Physical 



A Text-Book for Students. By Frank Hall ^* 



Thorp, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- By James Walker, D. Sc, Ph. D., Professor of 

 nolopv Cloth, 8vo, $3.50. Chemistry, University College, Dundee. 



^ ,.,.,..,• . Cloth, 8vo, $2.50 net. 



" I have examined It carefully and think It a most u 1 • • » -j »i, . j » • 



excellent book, meeting a want I have long felt in my An explanatory book aimmg to aid the student m 



higher classes I have introduced it in this year's making practical application of the truths of physical 



Ii-„»- ^ ^ T T^ T^ chemistry, instead of keeping it as a subject apart by 



Classes. « Charles E. Coates, Jr., Ph. D., ^^ ^^,^^^^ ^^^ thereby failing to obtain much material help 



" Pro/tssor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University.^' from the new discipline. 



THE LIQUEFACTION OF GASES. 



Just ready. "^ ^^^^ ^"^ Development. cloth, i2mo, $1.50. 



By WiLLETT Lepley Hardin, Harrison Senior Fellow in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. 



" The object of this little volume is to present a complete history, easy of comprehension, of the develop- 

 ment of the methods employed in the liquefaction of gases (among others, air and hydrogen). While the 

 book has been written in a popular-science style, an effort is made to make it of value to those who are 

 especially interested, by giving references to the original literature, though inaccessible to the majority of readers." 



The Soluble Ferments and Fermentation. Manual of Bacteriology. 



By J. Reynolds Green, Sc. D., F. R. S., Trinity By Robert Muir, M.D., F.R. C.P.Ed., Professor 



College, Cambridge, Professor of Botany to the of Pathology, University of Glasgow ; and James 



Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, etc. Ritchie, M. D., Lecturer on Pathology, Univer- 



Cambridze Natural Science Manuals. sity of Oxford. Second edition. With one hun- 



* dred and twenty-six Illustrations. 



Cloth, 8vo, $3-00 net. Just ready. ^^^^y^^ ^^ g^^,^ ^^.25 net. 



JUST READY. 

 THE REFRACTION OF THE EYE. 



Including a Complete Treatise on Ophthalmometry. A Clinical Text-Book for Students and Prac- 

 titioners. By A. Edward Davis, Adjunct Professor of Diseases of the Eye, New York Post- 

 Graduate Medical School and Hospital ; Secretary of the New York Ophthalmological Society, etc. 

 With 119 Engravings, of which 97 are original. Cloth, 8vo, $3.00 net. 



Written to demonstrate the clinical and practical use of the ophthalmometer, and to record the advances 



made in the science and practice of the refraction of the eye. 



THE CYCLOPEDIA OF AflERICAN HORTICULTURE. 



Edited by L. H. Bailey, Cornell University, Editor of The Garden Craft and Rural Science Series, and 

 author of popular yet authoritative works on Agriculture, Botany, etc. In 4 volumes. 

 Volume I Just ready. $5.00. Sold only by subscription for the set. 



Work is actively progressing on this Cyclopedia, which is expected to be completed during this year, in four large volumes. 

 Full descriptions will be given of all species of plants in the trade in North America, and supplementary lists will be added of 

 species which are of secondary or incidental importance. Full cultur.al and practical directions will also be given. Articles are 

 to be written by experts, and published over their names. Copious citations will be made to literature. The illustrations, num- 

 bering over two thousand, will be original and artistic, as in all Professor Bailey's publications. The work is expected to be 

 terse and condensed, in order to cover a very wide rnd representative range of American Horticulture. 



RURAL SCIENCE SERIES. NEW VOLUMES. 

 KINO. Irrigation and Drainage. By F. H. King, Pro- ROBERTS. The Farmstead. The Making of the 

 fessor of Agricultural Physics, University of Wisconsin, Rural Home and the Lay-Out of the Farm. By 



author of " The Soil." jfust ready. Cloth, $1.50. I. P. Roberts, Cornell University. Nearly ready. 



IN PREPARATION FOR EARLY ISSUE. 

 BAILEY. Principles of Vegetable BREWER. Principles of Stock FAIRCHILD. Rural Wealth and 



Gardening. By L. H. Bailev, Breeding. By W. H. Brewer, Welfare. Hy George T. Fair- 



Editor of the Series. Yale University. child, Berea College. 



Each is the work of an expert specialist, under Professor Bailey's editorial supervision, to insure the proper relation of vol- 

 umes, and will be found readable, clear-cut, pr.Tctical, and thoroughly up to date, treating its topics in a plain but comprehensive 

 way from the same general standpoint of combining science and practice. 



Special' Medical and Surgical Books are also in preparation for publication during February, if not before. The 

 already standard System of Medicine, edited by Dr. Allbutt, will be completed. Stonham's Manual of Surgery, Lilienthal's 

 Imperative Surgery, Oppenheim's Diseases of Childhood, and Fuller's Diseases of the Genito-Urinary System arc a few which 

 practicing physicians should add to their reference libraries. 



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