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gse of the Dunbar Coast and Orkney Islands, 70 pp.; Germination and Growth of Species of Sal- 

 via; Mann, on Studies of Chlorophyll and Spirogyra; Rings in Trees and Tree Measurements; 

 and other articles. 



Vol. XIX, pp. 1-232, 3 plates, contains articles on Excursion to Connemara of the Scottish Al- 

 pine Botanical Club; Girth Increase in Trees; Embryo Sac of Angiosperms: Vegetation of Brit- 

 ish Guiana; Larrea mexicana Moric; Boots of Grasses in Relation to their Upper Growth, illus- 

 trated; and other articles. 

 Glasgow, Scot.— r/ie Geological Society of Glasgow: Vol. VIII, 1884-'88, 392 pp., 6 plates, contains ar- 

 ticles and notes on Cone-ln-Cone Structure; Upper Limestones of North Ayrshire, with list of 

 fossils; Parallel Roads of Lochaber; Geology of Oban; Geology of Idaho; Post-Pliocene Beds of 

 Irvine Valley; Glacial Phenomena of Scotland; Sir Wm. Thomson, on Polar Ice Caps, illustrated; 

 and other articles. 



Vol. IX, Part 1, 1888-'90, 240 pp., 10 plates, contains articles on Fructification and Internal 

 Structure of Carboniferous Ferns; Internal Structure of Carboniferous Corals: Geology of the 

 Lugton Valley; Phenomena of the Glacial Epoch — "The Great Submergence": Surface Geology 

 of Paisley; The Great Ice Age in the Garnock Valley; Finds in an Ancient Lake in Cowdenglen, 

 Renfrewshire; and other articles. 

 The Philosophical Society of Glasgow: Proceedings, XXI, 1889-'90, 296 pp., 5 plates; cyanotype re- 

 production of seaweed, and two maps; contains articles on Sanitation; Electrification of Air by 

 Combustion; Studies of Comets; Basidity of Acids; Territorial Expansion of the British Empire 

 during the Last Ten Years; Public Lighting by Electricity; Club-mosses, Past and Present; Elec- 

 trical Oscillations, etc. 



Vol. XXII, 1890-'91, 384 pp., 3 plates, contains Problems of Modern Physiology: Gravimetric 

 Composition of Water; Oyster Fishery of Scotland; Max Mtiller on Language: Sociological Notes 

 on Iceland; Physiological Action of Carbon Monoxide of Nickel; Progress of Sanitation: Anglo- 

 Saxon Poem of Beowulf; The Great Winter— A Chapter in Geology; Chemistry of Democritus 

 and Synesius; and other articles. 



Vol. XXIII, 1891-'92, 372 pp., 6 plates, contains articles on Limes and Cements; The Sewage Prob- 

 lem; Women's Wages; School Building in Glasgow; Origin of the Faust Legend: Telephone 

 Switch-boards; Warming and Ventilation; Manufacture of Oxygen; Consumption, etc.— their 

 Spread; Fogs; and other articles. 

 Liverpool,, Eng. — Liverpool Geological Society: Proceedings, Vol. VI, pp. 341-460, contains articles on 

 The Earth in its Cosmical Relations; Glacial Deposits near Liverpool; The Trias of Cannock 

 Chase, with cuts; and other articles. 

 London, Eng.— iJoj/aJ Botanical Society of London: Quarterly Record, 1880 to 1891, 4 volumes, bound; 

 about 200 pp. each; Vol. V, Nos. 50, 51, April to September, 1892, pp. 17-64. 

 Geologists'' Association. 

 The Geological Society of London: Abstract of the Proceedings, session 1890-"91, Nos. 561-577, 116 



pp.; session 1891-'92, Nos. 578-594, 120 pp.; List of the Society, November 2, 1891, 80 pp. 

 Dulau <& Co.: Catalogues of Scientific Works, all languages, all sciences, each separate, 12x18 cm. 



1,200 pp. or over, some 18,000 titles. 

 Geo. Harding: Bibliotheca CEconomica. 24 pp., 730 titles. 

 W. P. Collins: Scientific Book Catalogue, No. 27. 20 pp., 500 titles. 



Wm. Wesley & Son: Natural History and Scientific Book Circular, Nos. 110-117, Geology, Miner- 

 alogy, Crystallography, Petrography, Astronomy, Meteorology, Physical Geography, Electricity, 

 Mammal,*, Ornithology, Reptilia, etc. 448 pp., 12,000 titles. Bibliotheca Botanica, 200 pp., bound 

 in cloth, 3,500 titles. 

 Manohestek, Eng. — Manchester Literary arul Philosophical Society: Memoirs and Proceedings, 

 Fourth Series, Vol. Ill, 1890, 348 pp., 10 colored plates, contains articles on CroU's Theory of 

 Glacial and Warm Periods; Combination of Hydrogen and Chlorine: Bibliography of Viscosity; 

 The Author of the Glacial Theory; Sphenophyllum as a branch of Asterophyllites: .Absorption 

 Spectra, and a Method for their Determination; Hymenoptera Orientalls, II: and other articles. 

 Vol. IV, 1890 -'91, 516 pp., 4 plates, the last one a colored geological chart of Levenshulme 

 limestones, 23 dm. in length. The volume contains articles on Thermal Conductivities; Specific 

 Heat of Nonconductors; The Theory of Glacier Motion; Intensity of Transmitted Light; Credit 

 Money and the Precious Metals; The Levenshulme Limestones; Genus Latirus; Hymenoptera 

 Orientalls, III; etc. 



Vol. V, 1891-'92, 216 pp., 4 plates, contains experiments on Transmission of Explosions; Func- 

 tions Formed on Groups; The Permlans of Northwest England; Hymenoptera Orientalls, IV; Iri- 

 descent Colors; Action of Acetic Acid on Indigo Blue; and other articles. 



Vol. VI, James Prescott Joule; A Memoir, by Osborne Reynolds, M. A., LL. D., etc.. Professor 

 of Engineering, Owen College, Manchester. 196 pp., with steel-plate frontispiece. 

 Penzance, Eno. — Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 



