VI 



♦ KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[Jdly 25, 1884. 



Greek and Roman coins, handbook of. By H. V. 



Head. \V. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., "London, 



59 

 Guiana, among the Indians of ; beinfj Bketchee chipfly 



anthropologic, from the interior of British Guiana. 



By Everard im Thum, M.A.Oxon. Kej^an Paul, 



Trench, & Co., London, 45 

 ^uiid of good life, the. By Benjamin Ward Hit:hard- 



Bon, M.D. Society for Promoting Christian 



Knowledge, London, 461 



Handbook of competitive eTaminations for admission 



to every department of Her Majesty's service. 



By W. J. Chetwode Crawley, LL.D. "Longmans, 



Green, & Co., London. 433 

 Heath, the fern portfolio of, 129 

 Hints to house-hunters and householders. By Ernest 



Turner. T. Batsford, London, 351 

 History readers. Motfatt &, Paige, London, 74 

 House of Lords, the. Bv Sir John Bennett. London, 



371 



Is God unknown and unknowable? By the Rev. C. 

 E. Beeby. Wyman & Sons, London, 351 



Kashgabia, Translated friTu the Russian of Col. A. K". 

 Kuropatldn. By Major W. E. Gowan, W. 

 Thacker & Co., London, 5i) 



LiFK— function— health: studies for young men. By 



W. Sinclair Paterson, Hodder & Stoughton, 



London, 461 

 Lives worth living. I. Sir John Herschel. By the 



Rev. Timothy Harley, F.R.A.S. Aleiandor & 



Sliepheard, London, 31) 

 Lump of iron, a. From the mine to magnet. By 



Alexander Watt. A. Johnston, London, 370 



Magnetic survey o( North-west Canada. By Lieut. 



(now Gen. Su- J. H.J Lefroy. Longmans & Co., 



London, 75 

 3Ianual of taiidermv. Bv C. J. Maynard. Triibner 



&, Co.. London, 292 

 Medical fashions in the ninete(*nth centurv. By 



Edward T. Tibbits, M.D. H. K. Lewis, London, 



231 

 Mineralogy, systematic and descriptive. By' J. H. 



Collins, F.G.S. William Collins & Co., London 



and Glasgow, 230 

 Modern hou^^ehold medicine. By Chas. Rob. Fleury, 



M.D. Second edition. E. Goulds Son, London- 

 US 



Natubat, history of the mammalia of India and Cey lon . 

 By Robert A. Sterndale, F.R.G.S. W. Thacker 

 & Co., London, 401 



Natural philosophy. Translated from M. Ganot's Coitr$ 

 EUmentairede Pht/sigiie by Prof. Atkinson. Long- 

 mans &. Co., London, 75 



^^avigation. Bv John Merrifield, LL.D. Longmans 

 & Co., London, 113 



New Atlantis, the; or, idoals, old and ne^v. By a 

 disciple uf Buckle. WilUams & Norgate Lon- 

 don, 350 



New Principia, the. By Mr. Newton Crosland. 

 Triibner & Co., London, 12, 350 



Notes of lessons on moral subjects. By F. W. Hack- 

 wood. T. Nelson & Sons, London, 29^' 



Notes on school management. By Geor"e Collins 

 MofiFatt Jt Page. London, 231 



Notes on the New Principia. By Newton Crosland, 



Optics without mathematics (illustpated) . By the Rev 

 Thos. W. Webb. M.A. Published by the Society 

 tor Promotmg Christian Knowledge, London and 

 New York, 74 



Oriental carpets. By Herbert Coion. T Fisher 

 0nwin, London, 230 



t^ABALLEL roads of Glenroy,the. Bv Jas. Macfadzean. 



J. Menzies & Co., Edinburgh,!131 

 Periodic law, the. By John A. R. Newlands. E. & 



F. N. Spon, London, 370 

 Photography. By J. H. T. EUerbeck. D.H.Cussons 



& Co., Liverpool, 59 

 Physiography. Advanced course. Br Andrew Find- 



later, M.A. W. A; R. Cbambers.London, 312 

 Populartreatiseon modern photographv, a. By George 



Dawson, M.A. George Maaon & Co., Glasgow, 371 

 Practical guide to photography. By Marion & Co 



Marion & Co., London, 4S3 

 Practice of medicine. By M. Chateris, M.D. Third 



edition. J. &. A. Churchill, London, 113 

 Prophecies and speculations respecting ttie end of the 



world. By the Rev. B, W. Savile. Houlston & 



Sons, London, 113 



QUALiTATiTB analysis, notes on. By H. J. H. Fenton, 

 M.A. University Press. Cambridge, 113 



Bed deer. By Richard Jefferies. Longmans, Green, 

 & Co., London, 58. 



fiAGACrrr and morality of plants : a sketch of the life 

 and conduct of the vegetable kingdom. By J E 

 _ Taylor, Ph.D. Chattu Jc Windus, London,* 482 



Science gleanings in many fields: studies in natural 

 history. By John Gibson. T. Nelson & Sons, 

 London, 12(J 



Science in the nursery; or, children's toys and what 

 they teach. Griffiths & Farran, London, 371 



Scientitic papers of .Isimes Prescott Joule, D.C.L. 

 (Oxitn.). Published by the Physical Society of 

 London. Taylor & Francis, London, 24-* 



Sele<'tit)ns from previous works, with remarks on Mr. 

 G. J. Romanes's " Mental evolution in animals," 

 and a p.salra of Montreal. By SamUel Butler. 

 Triibner & Co., London, 216 



Sir Lyon PJayfair taken to pieces, likewise Sir Charles 

 Dilke. Bart. E. AV. AUen, London, 311 



Soap-making, the art of. By Alexander Watt. 

 Crossby, Lockwood, & Co., London, 312 



Solar physics and earthquake commotions. By A. H. 

 Swinton, 74 



Strains on girdira, arches, and trusses; with a sup- 

 plementary essay on economy in suspension 

 bridges. By K. W, Young. Macmillan & Co., 

 London, 4^2 



Tait*8 improved arithmometer. Charles & Edward 



Laytoii, London, 421 

 Thrift and independence. By the Rev. William L. 



Blackley, M.A. Society for Promoting Christian 



Knowledge, London, 4G1 

 Transit instruments, the. By Latimer Clark. E. & 



F. N. Spon, London, 59 

 True and false issues between Christianity and science. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn. W. Skeffington & 



Sons, London, 59 



UscLAiitBD money: a handy book lor heirs at law, 



next of kin, &"c. Bv E.'Preaton. E. W. AUen, 



London, 292 

 Unity of nature, the. By the Duke of Argyll. Alex. 



dtrahan, London, 162 

 Universal attraction ; its relation to the chemical 



elements. Bv W. H. Sbarp. E. Jt S. Livingstone, 



Edinburgh, 230 



Vbstigbs of the natural history of creation. By 

 Robert Chambers, with an introduction relating 

 to the authorship of the work by Alexander 

 Ireland. W. & R. Chambers, London and Edin- 

 burgh, 320 



Vignettes from invisible life. By John Badcock, 

 F.R.M.S. Cassell & Co., London, 292 



Voice, song, and speech : a practical guide for singers 

 and speakers, from the combined view of vo'ca! 

 surgeon and voice trainer. Bv Lennox Browne, 

 F.R.C.S., and Emil Behnke. Sampson Low, 

 Marston, &. Rivington, London, 85 



Watch and clock makers' handbook. By F. J. 



Britten. W. Kent & Co., London, 230 

 Weather of 1883, the, as observed in thfe neighbour- 

 hood of London. By Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.S. 



Edward !>tanford, London, 420 

 Weights and measures. By John Morrison. William 



Kidd, Dundee, 113 

 "Whence? what? where? By Dr. James E. Nichola. 



Triibner A: Co., London, 74 

 AVhen did life begin? By G. Hilton Scribner. 



Charles Scribner, New York, 113 

 "Where shall I educate my son ? By C. E. Fascoe. 



Houlston & Sons, London, 59 

 "Uliist. By J. R. W. Warne & Co., London, 153 

 Wholesome houses. By E. G. Banner, C.E. Edward 



Stanford, London, 351 

 Workshop appUances. By C. P. B. Shelley. Long- 

 mans, Green, & Co., London, 292 

 Workshop receipts. Third series. Bv C. G. Wam- 



ford Lock. E. & F. N. Spon, London, lS3t, -483 

 World-life; or, comparative geology. By Professor 



Alexander Wincnell, LL.D. "Triibner & Co., 



London, 58 

 Wiesen as a health-resort. By Dr. A. T. Tucker. 



Bailliere, Tindall, A; Cox, London, 59 



YocxG collectors* handbook of British birds, of 

 shells, of orders of insects, of butterflies, of 

 beetles, and of postage-stamps. By various 

 aiitliors. W. Swan Soinienschein & Co., London, 

 420 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Abtssinxa, travelling in, 375 



Accident from electric lighting, 300 



Accidents on the railways of the United Kingdom, 331 



Air, velocity of sound in, 490 



Alpha Draconis, statement referring to the, 130 



Alphabet, remarks on a proposed reform of, by Mr. 



Pitman, 297 

 Amateur photography, 440 

 America, the telepnone in, 462 

 Anatomy and physiology, lectures on, by Dr. Andrew 



Wilson, lt> 

 Ancient map-makers, 131 

 Anglesey, methods of spelling, 130 

 Arizona, lopper from, 30 

 Art, the duty on works of, 24«S 

 Asbestos paint at the International Health Exhibition, 



391) 

 As original as an Englishman, remarks on the phrase, 



229 



Astronomy and the telescope, 4fi 

 Atmosphere of the sun, 160 

 Australian beliefs, 131 

 Automatic lighting of beacons, 460 



Bells in the clock-tower of the Law Courts, 320 

 Bethnal Green Free Museum, patents department of, 



190 

 Billion, trillion, &c., meaning of, in England, America, 



and on the Continent, 297 

 Britain, the future of, 4*) 

 British Association, the, 166 

 British Museum, the, 163 

 Brazil, telephone wires in, 460 

 Broken elass, cement for repairing, 28 

 Brush Electric Company, a compliment to the, 13 



Canada, telegraph offices in, 199 



Canadian telegraphs, 193 



Car-wheels in the United States, 388 



Cement for repairing glass, receipt for a, 28 



Cheyne, Mr. Watson, demonstration of pathogenic 



micro-organisms by, 252 

 China, the telegraph in, 2-4S 

 Coal-mines, number in operation io England and Wales 



in 1883, 320 

 Coal, output of, in the United Kingdom, 148 

 Coal, the production of, 33S 



Cold, rippara'us for the continuous production of, 228 

 Colliers. stutiHtic.<( of, in the United Kingdom, 330 

 Combining colours, 487 

 Congre-4^ on electrical units, decision of the, regarding 



length of a column of mer'uri-, 415 

 Condu't of lil<?niry work, remniks on, 133 

 Conduit water, earliest instance of use of, by a 



Londoner, 210 

 Conversion of light into electricity, 103 

 Copper from Arizona, 39 

 Copper-mines of Lake Superior, 199 

 Crosland, Mr. Newton, and the Newtoman astronomy, 



130 ; see also 148 

 Curious phenomenon, a, 53 



Da>'Gbr of overhead wires, the, 13 

 Destruction of telegraph ^rire, 40^ 

 Diamond, the matrix of the, 222 

 Distilled water : where to procure it, 31 

 Divers, the telephone for, 265 

 Duty on works of art, the, 243 



Eabth : ia it advancing nearer the snn? 297 

 Eastward Ho: reference to the new magazine of that 



name, 273 

 Edison light on the Continent, the, 89 

 Electrical congre-is, the, 312 



Electric lighting at lIuU, 4-15, 462 ; accident from, 300 

 Electric tramway incident, an, 309 

 Elephantiasis and electricity, 165 

 Elephant that reads, an, 226 

 England and Scotland, telegraphic communication 



between, 209 

 Expensive railway, an, H 



Floods in the Ohio, 460 



Florida, a projected canal across, 59 



Foreign trade of India in ls82-3, the, 8 



Foster, Mr. Thomas, and correspondents on the 



morality of happiness, 149 

 France, underground mres in, 73 

 French railways, the telephone on, 5 

 French subterranean telegraphy, 421 

 Future of Britain, the, 4U 



Gas in Paris, 367 



Gases, the liquefaction of, 312 



Geological society, the, 477 



Geneva, the Rhone at. 462 



German steam navigation, 410 



Gilchrist penny science lectures, the, 235 



Globe lightning, 479 



Glow, the morning, 89 



Great East em, proposal to make a floating hotel of the, 



103, 169 

 Gulchen Electric Light Company, installation of the, 



Gutia-percha, reference to, 133 



Herschbl. Col., reference to, 348 



Highways in England, average expenditure on, 132 



Horse, sagacitv of the, 246 



Hull, electric fighting at. 4*5 



Human body, electrical resistance of the, 294 



iLLrMiXATrr, a new, 222 



Importance of trifles in science, the, 44 



India, the foreign trade of. in 1S82-3, 8 



Indian population of the Cnited States, the, 131 



Industnal use for electricity, an, 354 



Injustice as immorality, 379 



Instinct, 23 



Interesting discovery, an. 314 



International Health Exhibition, the, 411 



Iron and steel, the world's production of, 75 



JoHX Bull's neighbour in her true light, 119 



