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•Sur la declinaison, I'inclination et la force de I'aiguille magnetiqiie a 

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Sur les Aurores Boreales,et sur rinclinaison magnetique a Bruxelles : — 



Sur I'Electricite des nuages orageux : — Par A. Quetelet. Bruxelles. 

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Methode pour determiner simultanement la latitude, la longitude, 

 I'heure et I'azimut, par des passages observes dans deux verti- 

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On the Constants of Nature. Class Mammalia: by Ch. Babbage. 

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Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, on the Distribution of the Income of the 

 Smithsonian Fund, &c. Washington, 1854. 8vo. — From the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XXVIII. No. 

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African "Repository. Vol. XXX. No. 10. October, 1854. Wash- 

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Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, 

 showing the progress of the Survey during the year 1852. 

 Washington, 1853. 8vo. — From A. D. Bache. Superintendent 

 U, S. Coast Survey. 



The Elements of Intellectual Philosophy ; by Francis Wayland, 

 President of Brown University, &c., &c. Boston, 1854. 8vo. 

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Die Galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet, von Dr. G. S. Ohm. 

 Berlin, 1827. 8\o.— From Prof. .7. F, Frazer, 



The Scientific Stair Builder: by Robert Riddell. Illustrated with 

 forty plates. — From the Author. 



Mathematics Simplified and made Attractive; or the Laws of Mo- 

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Astronomical Journal. Vol. IV. No. 4. October 7, 1854 Cam- 

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The Plough, the Loom ;ind the Anvil. Vol. VII. No. 4. October, 

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