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



13940 RAY (John; pr., f.r.s.) Three Physico-Theological Discourses. I. The Primitive 

 Chaos and Creation of the World. II. The General Deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. 

 The Dissolution of the World, and Future Conflagration : largely discussing the Production 

 and Use of Mountains ; the Original of Fountains, of Formed Stones, and Sea-Fishes Bones and 

 Shells found in the Earth ; the Effects of Floods, etc. ; Volcanos, and the Cause of Earthquakes, 

 with Account of those Two late Remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England ; 2nd Edition, very 

 much enlarged, 12nio. old calf {back of binding damaged, ink-stain on title, and plates wantivq). 

 Is ' ' Sam. Smith, 1()93 



13941 Fourth Edition, with fine portrait in clerical habit by G. Vertue after Faithorne, and 



4 copperplates, 8vo. old panelled calf {one joint cracked, otherwise a sound copy), \Qs 6d 1721 



'This work, and the author's Wisdom of God manifested in the Creation are sufficient to perpetuate Ray's memory as 

 long as the English language is understood or piety regarded.'— Dr. Adam Clarke. 



13942 The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, viz. the Heavenly 



Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils .... more particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, 

 Motion, and Consistency, and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man, and other 

 Animals, etc. etc., 8th Edition, corrected, Svo.old panelled calf. Is 1722 



' These [the above] two volumes are his most popular works, and are important on account of the accurate views they 

 propound as to the nature of fossils, and from the use made of them by Paley.* — D. N. B. 



' Ray was one of the first of our writers who enlarged upon the effects of running water on the land, and of the en- 

 croachment of the sea on the shores. His discourses, like those of Hooke, are highly interesting, as attestingthe familiar 

 association in the minds of philosophers, in the age of Newton, of qiiestions in physics and divinity.' — Sir Charles Luell. 



13943 : Philosophical Letters between the late Learned Mr. Ray and several ot his 



Ingenious Correspondents . . . with those of Francis Willughby. The Whole consisting of 

 many curious Discoveries and Improvements in the History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, 

 Plants, Fossiles, Fountains, etc., published by W. Derham, pr., f.r.s., with diagrams, 8vo. sovnd 

 copy in contemporary panelled ca}f,Ss6d 1718 



V. No. 3906 ante. 



13944 RAY (PraphuUa Chandra, Freiidency Col/., Calcntta) A History of Hindu Chemistry, 

 from the earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century, with Sanskrit Texts, Variants, 

 Translation, and Illustrations, Vol. I only, with "plates, shoicing Hindoo chemical operations, and 

 41 pp. of Sanskrit texts, roy. 8vo. sewn, with inbcr. and S-pp. auto, letter to Sir Edward Thorpe, 

 F.E.S.i 8s (p. 12s 6U nett) Calcutta, 1902 



13945 RAYLEIGH (John William Strutt, 3rd Lord, f.r.s. ; Nobel Laureate) On the Circulation 

 of Air observed in Kundt's Tubes, and on some Allied Acoustical Problems, 4to. (pp. 21), .''Cwn, 

 2s Qd [1884] 



13946 On the Clark Cell as a Standard of Electro-Motive Force, woodcut, 4to. (pp. 20), sewn, 



2s 6d 1886 



13947 Experiments, by the Method of Lorentz, for the further Determination of the 



Absolute Value of the British Association Unit of Resistance, with Appendix on the 

 Determination of the Pitch of a Standard Tuning-Foi k, with 6 diagrams, 4to. (pp. 28), sewn, 3s [ 1 883] 



13948 Interference of Sound, with ivoodcut, 8vo. (pp. 7), sevjn. 2s 1902 



Together with ' The Discovery of the Future ', by H. G. Wells [novelist], (pp. IS). 



13949 [Presidential] Address [to the British Association, Montreal, 1884], 8vo. 



(pp. 21), sewn, 2s • 1884 



13950 Reprint of some Optical Papers [on Diftraction Gratings, Experiments on Colour, 



and the Velocity of Light], 8vo. (pp. 54), sewn, 5s [privately printed, Cambridge,] 188;i 



13951 The Theory of Sound, with 64 diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. cL, 8s'6d (£1. 5*) 1877-8 



13952 , andSirWilliam RAMSAY, F.R.S. : Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere, 



with 8 woodcuts, roy. 4to. (pp. 55), sewn, Ss Qd 1895 



The announcement of the discovery of argon. 



13953 RAYMOND (Rossiter Worthington ; Sec. American Inst. Mining Engineers) Glossary of 

 Mining and Metallurgical Terms, with portrait {inserted), roy. 8vo. c/., ivith auto, letter from, 

 the author to W. S. Gresley, F.G.S., M.I.M.E., 5s Easton. IgSl 



13954 REA (Roger) The Sector and Plain Scale, compared : Containing I. The Descrii)tion of 

 all the Lines on them. II. The True Use of the Sector. III. All the preceedin^ Geometrical 

 Problems and Cases of Right Lin'd Trigonometry compared by the Plain Scale, and IV. performed 

 Arithmetically, without the Help of any Sort of Tables, with so much of Decimal Arithmetick, 

 and the Extraction of the Square Root, as is necessary for the Working of Arithmetical Triuono- 

 metry ; 2nd Edition, with 3 folding copperplates, 12mb. (pp. 102). sewn, 8s M llVl 



Unknown to Poggendorff, Watt, Allibone, and Lowndes. 



13955 READ (Carveth) On the Theory of Logic: an Essay, cr. 8vo. cl., with Herbert Spencer's 

 bookstamp on title {scarce), 8s %d 1878 



Professor Carveth Read's first publication, and ' the most real addition that has been made on the subject since the 

 apjjearauce of Prof. Bain's ' Logic', and one that cannot henceforward be overl()ol<ed by any one interested in the logic 

 of science.' — Academy. 



13956 READ (John) Meteorological Journal, principally relating to Atmospherical Electri- 

 city, kept at Knightsbridge, from the 9th of May, 1790, to the 8th of May, 1791, with plate by 

 Basire, 4to. (pp. 32), sewn, 4.s 6c? 1792 



' To him we.owe a very elaborate series of researches on atmospherical electricity.'— -Sir John HerscM. 



13957 RECLTJS (Elisee) The Earth : a Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the 

 Globe, translated by B. B. Woodward, and edited by Henry Woodward ; 3rd Edition, with 

 2i full-page coloured and 2.30 other maps, 2 vols. 8v«. cl., 5s Qd (p. £1. 1*) 1877 



Containing chapters on the Earth as a Planet ; the Land ; the Circulation of Water ; and Subterranean Forces. 



13958 The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life, translated by B. B. Woodward, and edited by 



Henry Woodward, f.k.s., with 207 woodcuts and maps, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., 5s 6c? (p. £1. is) 1873 



