588 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



11818 MEYER (Victor; U7iiv. Heidelberg) Probleme der Atomistik, rjy. Svo. (pp. 15), sewn, with 

 inscr. to Sir E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Is 6d Leipzig, 1895 



11819 , und Paul JACOBSON : LEHRBUCnderORGANisCHEN Chemie ; with woodcuts, 2 thick 



vols. Svo. in 3, vol. I in hf. German calf gilt, and the rest sewn as issued , £2. 2* (p. M. 70.50 

 sewn) ibid., 1893-1903 



Inhalt:— I. AUgemeiner Teil. Verbindungen der Fettreihe. IT. Cyclische Verbindungen, Naturstoffe, bearbeitet von 

 C. Harries imd A. Reissert. 1. Einkernige isocyclische Verbindungen. 2. Die Gruppe der mehrkernigen Benzolderivate. 



11820 : Lunge (Georg) VICTOR Meyer [Nekrolog] ; with portrait, 4to. (pp. 3), unbound, with 



inscr. to Sir E. Thorpe, \s Berlin, 1897 



11821 MEYER (Wilhelm) Memoire sur la Grande Comete Australe du Mois de Fevrier, 1880, 

 roy. 4to. (pp. 36), sewn, 2s M Geneve, 1882 



Tlie author identified the comet of ISSO with that of 1843, and assigned it a 37-year period. 



11822 MIALL (Louis Compton, f.r.s., Univ. Leeds) The Geology, Natural History, and Pre- 

 historic Antiquities of Craven in Yorkshire, with coloured plate of sections, and geological 

 map, roy. 4to. cl., As Leeds, 1878 



11823 MICHAiJLIS (W.) Appareils servants a determiner la RESISTANCE k la Traction et a la 

 Compression des Ciments et des Mortiers; with 2 plates, roy. Svo. (pp. 16), sewn, \s&d 



Liege, s. d. 



11824 MICHATJD (L.) HiSTOiRE Complete des TElEgraphes depuis leur Origine jusqu'a nos 

 Jours: Origine, Telegraphes Aeriens, Electricite et Magnetisme, Piles Voltaiqnes, Divers 

 Systemes de T^legraphes Electriques, Telegraphes Suisses; with 2 folding plates and map, l2mo. 

 hf. cl., 6s 6d Gendve, 1853 

 Interesting as an early history of the subject, beginning with Guillaume Araontons's heliograph, discovered c. 1(390. 



11825 MICHELI (Lorenzo, Bolognese) NuovA Invenzione di una Macchina Marittima per 

 trovar TAngolo di Deria^a ; with folding etched plate, Svo. (pp. 10), sewn [rare), 8s &d 



Bologna, 1776 



' L'angolo di deriva e quello che fa la chiglia colla linea segnata dalla nave (route)'. — Riccardi. There was no copy of 



this pamphlet in the Scott Library— one of the most complete collections of books on naval architecture. 



1182C MICHELL (John; pr., Queen's Coll., Cantab., f.r.s.) Conjectures concerning the Cause, 



and Observations upon the Phenomena of Earthquakes, particularly the great one of Nov. 1, 



1755, at Lisbon, etc., with folding plate, 4to. (pp. 71), sewn {rare), 8s 1760 



' Putting forward the theory of their origin through the elastic force of subterraneanly genei'ated steam '. — D. N. B. 



' As far back as 17G0, in a remarkable and well-known paper on Earthquakes, John Michell gave a clear account of the 

 stratified arrangement of the rocks of England '.—Sir A. Geilcie. 



11827 Treatise of Artificial Magnets ; in which is shewn an easy and expeditious Method 



of making them, superior to the best Natural ones, and a Way of improving the Natural ones, and 

 of changing their Poles, with Directions for making the Mariner's Needles, etc. etc., 2nd 

 Edition, improved, with folding plate, Svo. (pp. 78), senm (rare), 10s 6d Cambridge, 1751 



' Describing the mode of making artificial magnets by ' double touch ', and enunciating the law of variation of magnetic 

 action according to inverse squares of distances '.—D. N. B. 



11S28 MICHELL (Stephen) Mine Drainage : a Complete and Practical Treatise on Direct- Acting 

 Underground Steam Pumping Machinery, with Descripticm of the best known Engines . . . and 

 their Merits compared with other Pumping Machinery, etc., with 137 illustrations {including 

 many linen-mounted folding plates), Svo. hf. morocco neat, Qs (p. 15* in cl.) 1881 



11829 Second [latest] Edition, rewritten and enlarged, with 247 illustrations [including 15 



folding plates), roy. Svo. cl., \os (p. £1. 5s nett) 1899 



11830 MICHELOTTi (Francesco Domenico ; Univ. Turin, teacher of Daniel Bernoulli) Speri- 

 menti Idraulici, principalmente diretti a confermare la Teorica, e facilitare la Pratica del 

 Misurare le AcQUE Correnti, con Volume Secundo, in cui, oltre alle Nuove Sperienze, si 

 contengono le Risposte dell' Autore ad alcuni celebri Matematici dTtalia, e due Esercitazioni 

 Analitiche : una Nuova Teoria delle Progression! e Proporzioni Geometriche, ed un Esame delle 

 Equazioni dette Irreducibili di Terzo Grado ; with fine portrait on copper of King Charles 

 Emanuel I. of Sardinia, W folding copperplates, and 1 folding tables, 2 \oh. 4to. fine copy in 

 contemporary hf. calf (rare), 16s Torino, 1767-71 



11831 Another Copy, 2 vols, contemporary tree-calf gilt {fine copy), lis 6d 



' Re Carlo Emanuele gli procuru il modo di eseguire con appositi apparecchi gli sperimenti esposti in questa pregevole 

 opera. Fra i quali meritano speciale menzione I'esperienze fatte cogli strumenti usitati per misurare la velocita dell' acque, 

 relevandone i difetti e proponendo all' uopo utili perfezionamenti'.— EiccartZi. 



11S32 MICHELSON (Albert Abraham, Univ. Chicago) Light Waves and their Uses, with 3 

 coloured spectrum plates and 108 smaller illustrations, Svo. cl., with auto, of F. J. Jervis-Smith, 

 pr., F.R.S., 6s 6d (p. 10s nett) Univ. Press, Chicago, 1903 



Containing valuable chapters on interference methods, and their application, light waves as standards of length, the 

 ether, etc. etc. 



The author, in conjunction with Prof. Frank Morley, made the famous experiment on ether in relation to motion, 

 from which Einstein, Lorenz and Minkowski developed the Principle of Relativity. 



11833 MIETHE (Adolf, Charlottenburg) Optique Photographique sans Developpements Math6- 

 matiques ; traduit par A. Noaillon et V. Hassreidter ; with 2 plates, and 72 other illustrations, 

 roy. Svo. seicn, 2s ] 896 



11834 [MIGNOT de MONTIGNY (Etienne, de V Academic des Sciences)], Recueil de Memoires 

 et d'OBSERVATiONS sur la Formation et sur la Fabrication du Salpetre, par les Commissaires 

 nomm^s parl'Academie pour le Jugement du Prix du Salpetre, public par; with ^folding copper- 

 plates, Svo. old calf gilt (rare), £1. Is 1776 



A collection of memoirs by L. Lemery, F. Pourfour du Petit, Elie Bertrand, etc. etc., and one by Lavoisier, 'Sur 

 I'Existence de I'Air dans I'Acide Nitreux, et sur les Moyens de decomposer et de recomposer cet Acide '. There are also 

 Extracts from the Works ol Glauber and Stahl, and Instructions on the Construction and Working of Nitrate Works by 

 the Swedish Ministry of War. 



