NATURE 



A WEEKLY 



ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



VOLUME XII. 



MAY 1875 to OCTOBER 1875 



" Ti? the solid ground 

 Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye." — Wordsworth 



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MACMILLAN AND CO. 



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