NATURE 



[Dec. 26, 1878 



MANUALS FOR STUDENTS. 



FLOWER (W. H.)— AN INTRODUCTION 

 ' ' TO THE OSTEOLOGY OF THE MAMMALIA. Being 

 the Substance of the Course of I-ectures delivered at the 

 Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1870. By W. H. 

 Flower, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., Hunterian Professor of Com- 

 parative Anatomy and Physiology. With numerous Illus- 

 trations. Second Edition enlarged. Crown 8vo. los. 6d. 



FOSTER and BALFOUR— THE ELEMENTS 



OF EMBRYOLOGY. By Michael Foster, M.D., 

 F.R.S., and F. M. Balfour, M.A. Part I. Crown 8vo. 

 •js. 6d. 



FOSTER and LANGLEY— A COURSE OF 

 ELEMENTARY PRACTICAL PHYSIOLOGY. By 

 Michael Foster, M.D., F.R.S., and J. N. Langley, 

 B.A. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 6j. 



HOOKER (Dr.)— THE STUDENT'S FLORA OF 

 THE BRITISH ISLANDS. By Sir J. D. Hooker, 

 K.C.S.I., C.B., P.R.S., M.D., D.C.L. Second Edition, 

 Revised. Globe 8vo. 10s. 6d. 



_" Cannot fail to perfectly fulfil the purpose for which it 

 is intended." — Land and Water. 



" Certainly the fullest and most accura'e manual of the 

 kind that has yet appeared."— /Iz// Mall Gazette. 



HUXLEY and MARTIN— A COURSE OF 

 PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY 

 BIOLOGY. By Professor Huxley, F.R.S., assisted by 

 H. N. Martin, M.B., D.Sc. New Edition, revised. 

 Crown Svo. 6j. 



" It is impossible for an intelligent youth, with this book 

 in his hand, placing him=elf before any one of the organisms 

 described, and carefully following the directions given, to 

 fail to verify each point to which his attention is directed." 

 — Athenaum. 



HUXLEY— PHYSIOGRAPHY. An Introduction 

 to the Study of Nature. By Professor Huxley, F.R.S. 

 "With numerous Illustrations, and Coloured Plates. New 

 Edition. Crown Svo. 7^. (>d. 



OLIVER (Professor)— FIRST BOOK OF 

 INDIAN BOTANY. By Daniel Oliver, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., Keeper of the Herbarium and Library of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, and Professor of Botany in University 

 College, London. With numerous Illustrations. Extra 

 fcap. Svo. 6j. (>d. 



"It contains a well-digested summary of all essential 

 knowledge pertaining to Indian Botany, wrought out in 

 accordance with the best principles of scientific arrange- 

 ment." — Allen^s Indian Mail. 



PARKER and BETTANY— THE MOR- 

 PHOLOGY OF THE SKULL. By Professor Parker 

 and G. T. Bettany. Illustrated. Crown Svo, los. dd. 



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THE TRANSIT OF MARS. 



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SIX MONTHS in ASCENSION. An Un- 



scientific Account of a Scientific Expedition. By Mrs. GILL. Pre- 

 faced by a Brief and Popular History of the Methods Empl lyed to 

 Discover the Sun's Distance from the Karth. By DAVID GILL. 



A Scientific Expedition may be said to have two hist'iries. The cne treats 

 of the special objects of the Expedition, the ether of the personal adven- 

 tures of those concerned in it. It is only the furmer which finds permanent 

 record in the transactions of Scientific Societies ; the latter too often remains 

 unwritten. 



This little work must be regarded as one side of the history of one step, 

 and derives its interest from its truthfulness as a record of an attempt to solve 

 a great problem, viz., the Distance of i/ie Earth from the Sun. 



JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street. 



HEER'S GEOLOGY OF SWITZERLAND. 



In Two Volumes, Svo, with a Geologically Coloured Map, 19 full-page 

 Plates in Lithography and Chromoxylography, and about 372 Wood- 

 cuts in the Text, price i6j. 



THE PRIMiEVAL WORLD of SWITZER- 

 LAND. By the Rev. Prof. OSWALD HEER, of the University o£ 

 Zurich. Edited by James Hevwood, M.A., F.R.S. 

 " Switzerland forms a magnificent temple of nature, in which we may 

 follow in succession the past periods of the world's history." — Heer, vol. i. 

 page I. 



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SILS of the GIRVAN DISTRICT in AYRSHIRE, with Special 

 Reference to those contained in the " Gray Collection." 



Fasciculus I. — Rhizopoda, Actinozoa, Trilobita. 



By H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.D., D.Sc, &c.. Professor of 



Natural History in the L'niver.'^ity of St. Andrew's, and 



ROBERT ETHERIDGE, Jun., F.G.S. 



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FOWNES' CHEMISTRY BY WATTS. 



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PHYSICAL and INORGANIC CHEMIS- 

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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; or, The Che- 



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IMPOSSIBILITIES MADE PROBABLE. 



Consisting of Three Propositions :— i. Vitality makes Matter, 

 is Omnipotent. 3. A Persistent Life Natural to Man. 



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METALS and their CHIEF INDUSTRIAL 



APPLICATIONS. By C. ALDER WRIGHT, D.Sc, Lecturer o« 

 Chemistry in St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. With Illustrations. 

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