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WALTON AND MABERLY, 



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THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART, 



A MISCELLANY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING TRACTS ON THE 



PHYSICAL SCIENCES, AND ON THEIR APPLICATION TO 



THE USES OF LIFE. 



EDITED BY DR. LARDNEE. 



The purpose of the publishers of this series is to supply a collection of instructive 

 essays, composed in a popular and amusing style, and in easy language, on the 

 leading discoveries in the Physical Sciences, and on their most important and 

 interesting applications to the Arts which contribute to the convenience and orna- 

 ment of life. Such essays, when properly executed, are read with pleasure even 

 by those who have beeu disciplined in the study of the sciences. Many interesting 

 details and incidents, which are usually excluded from systematic treatises, would 

 be suitably placed among such illustrations as are contemplated. Persons whose 

 occupations exclude the possibility of systematic study, will be able to collect, 

 without the expenditure of more time and thought than they can easily spare, the 

 flowers and the fruits of the garden of knowledge, and may thus, in their hours of 

 leisure, obtain a considerable amount of information on subjects of the highest 

 interest. 



To place these essays within the reach of all classes, they will be published at 

 OXE PENNY, in weekly numbers of sixteen pages, large 12mo, printed on good 

 paper, in a clear type, and illustrated, when necessary, by engraviugs on wood; 

 also in Monthly Parts, price W., in a wrapper; and hi Quarterly Volumes, neatly 

 bound, price Is. 6d. 



Contents of Part I. 



No. 1. THE PLANETS, ARE THEY INHA- 

 BITED WORLDS? CHAPTER I. 



2. WEATHER PROGNOSTICS. 



No. 3. THE PLAXETS, ARE THEY INHA- 

 BITED WORLDS? CHAPTER II. 



4. POPULAH FALLACIES. 



Part II. 



5. LATITUDES AXD LONGITUDES. 



6. THE PLAXETS, ARE THET IXHA- 



BITED WORLDS? CHAPTER III. 



7. LUNAR INFLUENCES. 



8. METEORIC STONES AND SHOOTIXG 



STARS. CHAPTER I. 



Part III. Price 6d. 



9. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. CHAPTER!. 



10. THK PLANETS, ARE THEY INHA- 

 BITED WORLDS? CHA.PTEB IV. 



11. METEORIC STONES AND SHOOTING 



STARS. CHAPTER II. 



12. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. CHAPTER!!. 



13. LIGHT. 

 TITLE AND CONTEXTS TO VOLUME I. 



The folloirivy subjects will foi-m Early Xumlers of the Work : 

 The Sun and Moon. I The Eye and Sight. 



The Tides. 



Locomotion by Land and Water in the 



United States. 

 The Electric Telegraph. 

 Cometarv Influences. 

 Eclipses." 

 Steam Power. 



The Ear and Hearing. 



Thunder and Lightning. 



Common Things. Air, Earth, Fire, 

 Water, etc. 



Anecdotes of the Arts. No. 1. The Pot- 

 ter's Art. 



The Infinity of Worlds. 



