HENKY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43. PICCADILLY, W. 613 



12312 MURRAY (John : m.d., f.k.s.e. ; d. 1820) A System of Chemistry, first edition, vnth 

 plates\ 4 thick vols. 8vo. boards {backs torn), uncut, 10.? 6c? Edin., 1806-7 



12313 MURRAY (John, f.s.a., f.g.s., f.l.s.) Experimental Researches on the Light and 

 Luminous Matter of tlie Glow- Worm, the Luminosity of the Sea, the Phenomena of the 

 Chameleon, the Ascent of the Spider into the Atmosphere, and the Torpidity of the Tortoise, etc., 

 12mo. hoards, uncut (SCARCE), 12* Qd Glasgow, 1826 



' Tlie luminosity of the sea is a phenomenon dependent on the presence of luminous marine animals.' — F. 84. The writer 

 thu.s comes very near to the present-day explanation by bacteriological action. This work was unknown to the author's 

 biographer in D. N. B. 



12314 Manual of Experiments illustrative of Chemical Science, systematically arranged, 



3rd Edition, with front, and woodcuts, post 8vo. boards, uncut, 4s Qd 1833 



Incluiling ' Remarks on the New Nomenclature, and Theory of Definite Proportions, with a Definition of the Gases, and 

 Method of preparing them ' (pp. 1-25). 



12315 Practical Remarks on Modern Paper, with Introductory Account of former 



Substitutes; also Observations on Writing Inks, the Restoration of illegible MSS., and the 

 Preservation of important Deeds from the destructive Eftect of Damp, fcap. 8vo. original boards, 

 uncut [scarce), 8* Qd Edin., 1829 



CoiiUii.ing many original investigations, and warning against the cheap substitutes then coming into use in paper 

 making, which may now be trusted quickly to pulverise the paragraphic banalities of present-day popular journalism. 



12316 Treatise on Atmospheric Electricity ; including Lightning Rods, and Paragreles, 



with frontispiece of a * paragrele ', post 8vo. original hoards, uncut (scarce), 10s 6d 1830 



The barlmrously named paragreles are small lightning rods stuck into the ground and supposed to prevent hailstorms^ 

 the author starting from the assumption that hail is caused by the action of atmospheric electricity. 



The above John Murray, not to be confused with many others, was a native of Stranraer, and began as a scientific 

 I)opulariser at the old Surrey Institution, which led to a long lecturing career at mechanics' institutes, in connexion with 

 which he was referrwi to as ' one of the best lecturers in the world ' by Lord Brougham. 



12317 MURRAY (Mungo; Deptford Dockyard, and H. M.S. Magnanime) Treatise on Ship- 

 Building and Navigation : the Theory, Practice and Application of all the necessary Instru- 

 ments, with the Construction and U.se of the new Invented Shipwright's Sector, Tables of the 

 Sun's Declination, etc. etc., with an English Abridgment of another Treatise on Naval 

 Architecture, by M. Duhamel, 2nd [best] Edition, with Supplement, containing a 

 Translation of what M. BOUGUER has written on that Subject, and M. Duhamel's Method of 

 finding the Center of Gravity, with some Remarks by the Author, with 23 folding plates, thick 

 4to. sound copy in old calf, 155 1765 



One of the earliest systematic treatises in the language on Shipbuilding. 



12318 MUSORAVE (Samuel, m.d,, f.r.s.) Reasons for Dissenting from the Report of the 

 Committee appointed to consider of Mr. Wilson's Experiments; including Remarks on some 

 of the Experiments exhibited by Mr. Nairne, 4to. (pp. 22), sewn, Qs 1779 



Turning on the (luestion of the action of needles in the electric discharge. The author declares himself against their 

 employment in the lightning conductor. 



12319 MUSHET (David) Papers on Iron and Steel, Practical and Experimental, with original 

 Communications made to the Philosophical Magazine, chieHy on those Subjects, and copious illus- 

 trative Notes, 6 plates (chiefly folding), roy. 8vo. (pp. 980), c/., uncut (scarce), 15* 1840 



The author is perhaps best known for his process of making steel by melting in crucibles iron-ore mixed with a suitable 

 proportion of carbonaceous matter— practically the same as the ancient Hindoo process for woo<2;— which he sold for £3000 

 to a Sheffield firm. The work contains also important papers on the hot-blast furnace, the reduction of iron ores, and on 

 iron alloys. 



'The chief of Mushet's inventions was perhaps one patented in 1800 for the preparation of steel from bar iron by a 

 direct process. His other patents relate to the extraction of iron from cinder and to improvements in the process of 

 pudflliui,' \Ton.'—D. N. B., which does far too little credit to his long career as an experimenter. 



12320 MUSPRATT (James Sheridan, f.r.s.) Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical, a» 

 applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures, with 32Jine steel portraits of chemists, by 

 C. Cook, S. Freeman, and W. C. Sharpe, chiefly after photographs, and hundreds of ivoodcuts, 

 2 thick vols. impl. 8vo. hf. calf gilt, 12s 6d (p. £S. 13s 6c?) [1854-62] 



12321 Another Copy, 2 vols. cL, or, hf morocco. Us 6d 



a work still in demand for the fine series of portraits of celebrated chemists which it contains. 



12322 MUSSGHENBROEK (Pieter van; Univ. Ley den, f.r.s.) Bin^e Dissert ationes Physical 

 Experimentales de TUBis Capillaribus et ATTRACTIONS Speculorum Planorum ; with 2 



J olding plates, sm. ito. sewn, 5s Viennae, 1753 



' On y trouve d'excellents travaux sur les tubes capillaires et la cohesion des corps.'— jBiofirr. Ghi. 



12323 Elementa PHYSiCiE conscripta in Usus Academicos ; vrith numerous plates, 8vo. old 



calf (joints cracked), 4s Lugd. Bat., 1734 



12324 MUSTON (E., surgeon, H. E. I. Co.) An ANALYSIS of the ART of DYEING ; and an Essay on 

 Light and Colour, 8vo. (pp. 8t), seivn (title soiled), with author's inscr. (scarce), 10s Qd 



not published, 1830 

 a paradox in which the author believes himself to have discovered an ' entirely new system of colour ', mainly based on 

 the assumption that ' oxyj^en is the principle of colour in colouring matter.' The author still believes in the phlogiston 

 theory, and that light is a phenomenon of phlogiston. 



12325 MUTER (John, f.r.s. E.) Short Manual of Analytical Chemistry: Qualitative and 

 Quantitative ; Inorganic and Organic, 3rd Edition, with 45 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. c/., 2s (p. 6s 6rf) 1887 



12326 Fifth Edition, ^vith 51 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. d., "Is Qd 1892 



12327 MUZZI (Muzio), Alcuni Documenti suU' Aereonave Rettiremiga inventada; vnth folding 

 plate. 8vo. (pp. 23), sevm (very scarce), £1. Is Firenze, 1839 



Vfrv scarce and quite unknown to Hatton Tumor. The frontispiece illustrates the airship described above, as well as 

 anotht-r, invented by the author in 1834, on which the ' aereonave rettiremiga ' is based. 



12328 MYLNE (A., Minister of Dollar) Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; or an easy Intro- 

 duction to a Knowledge of the Heavens ; 2nd Edition, loith o folding plates, Svo. hf. calf, or, cl., 3s 



^Edin., 1819 

 41 



