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be serviceable not only to residents of India, but also to any one about to 

 proceed thither, desirous of getting some preliminary idea of the Botany of 

 that country. 



CHEMISTRY. 



PROFESSOR ROSCOE'S LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY 

 CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC AND ORGANIC. By HENRY 

 E. ROSCOE, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in Owens College, 

 Manchester. With numerous Illustrations and Chromo-Litho. of 

 the Solar Spectrum, and of the Alkalies and Alkaline Earths, 

 New Edition. Twenty-first Thousand. i8mo. cloth. 41. 6J. 



It has been the endeavour of the author to arrange the most important 

 facts and principles of Modern Chemistry in a plain but concise and 

 scientific form, suited to the present requirements of elementary instruction. 

 For the purpose of facilitating the attainment of exactitude in the knowledge 

 of the subject, a series of exercises and questions upon the lessons have been 

 added. 77ie metric system of weights and measures, and the centigrade 

 thermometric scale, are used throughout the "work. The nnv Edition, 

 besides new wood-cuts, contains many additions and imfrovements t and 

 includes the most important of the latest discoveries. 



