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



ROBINSON (Bryan, M.D., t.c.d.) A Dissertation on the Aether of Sir Isaac Newton 

 (1747)— I?. Newtoniana, No. 12628, ante. 



14348 ROBINSON (Charles Stanley), and Humphrey Owen JONES: Complex Thio-Oxalates, 

 Svo. (pp. 15), sewn. Is 1912 



14349 ROBINSON (H. O. and Albert) Account of some recent Improvements in the System of 

 Navigating the Ganges by Iron Steam Vessels, with 8 plates of steamboats and machinery, 

 old native boat, and chart (5 folding), Svo. cl. {scarce), 10s %d 1848 



An attempt to quicken Indian travel up country between Calcutta and Allahabad when the railway system was still 

 a dream. 



14350 ROBINSON (Harry Perry) The Elements of a Pictorial Photograph, with numerous 

 illustrations by the Author, Svo. hf. buckram, 2s &d Bradford, 1896 



14351 Letters on Landscape Photography, with woodcuts, 12mo. sewn, \s 1888 



14352 Pictorial Effect in Photography: Hints on Composition and Chiaroscuro for Photo- 

 graphers ; 2nd Edition, ivith woodcuts, 12mo. sewn, 2s 6d 1879 



14353 Picture Making in Photography, with 4 plates, and woodcuts, 12mo. sewn, 2s 1884 



14354 Second Edition, with Chapters on Instantaneous Photography and the Persistence of 



Vision and Naturalistic Photography, with 2 plates and ivoodcuts, cv. Svo. cl., 2s dd 1889 



14355 The Studio : and what to do in it, with woodcuts, 12mo. sewn, 2s 1885 



14356 ROBINSON (Henry, M.I.C.E., /itX<9''5 Coll., London) Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic 

 Machinery ; 2nd Edition, enlarged, wi^h 69 plates [mostly folding), and oO smaller illustrations, 

 Svo. cl., 8s 6d (p. £1. 144) ' 1893 



Dedicated to the late Lird A.rinstrono;, under whom Professor Robinson first worked. 



14357 Sewage Disposal ; for the Guidance of Sanitary Authorities; 2nd Edition, post Svo. 



cl.,2s6d{p. 5s) 1882 



143.58 Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, with folding diagram, Svo. cl. [o. p.), 4s (p. \2s6d) 1896 



14359 ROBINSON (John, m.i.m.e.) On Giffard's Injector for Feeding Steam Boilers (Sup- 

 plementary Paper), Svo. (pp. 9), sewn. Is 6d Birmingham, 1860 



Written at tlie time when Mr. Giffard's paradoxical inventitm was just coming into use. 



14360 ROBINSON (Thomas Romtjey ; t.c.b.. Prebendary of St. Patrick's; F.R.S.) DESCRIPTION 

 of an Improved Anemometer for registering the Direction of the Wind, and the Space which it 

 traverses in given Intervals of Time, ivith plate and 2 woodcuts, 4to. (pp. 24), sewn, 4s 6d 



[Dublin, 1850] 



Describing the author's invention of the cup anemometer, which now forms part of every Meteorological Observatory. 



14361 On the Determination of the Constants of the Cup Anemometer by Experiments 



with a Whirling Machine, Part II, roy. 4to. (pp. 16), sewn, with inscr. to Prof. A. S. Herschel, 

 F.R.S.,2s6d 1880 



Written at the ripe age of SS. 



14362 Places of One Thousand Stars observed at the Armagh Observatory, 4to. (pp. 



32), unbound, 2s 1878 



14363 On the Relation between the Temperature of Metallic Conductors, and their 



Resistance to Electric Currents, with 3 woodcuts, 4to. (pp. 24), seAvn, 3s 6d [Dublin,] 1848 



14364 . Second Armagh Catalogue of 3300 Stars for the Epoch 187.5, deduced from 



Observations made at the Armagh Observatory, 1859-83, under the Direction of, and prepared 

 for Publication by J. L. E. Dreyer, f.r.A.S., roy. Svo. cL, 4? ibidem, 1886 



14365 On Spectra of Electric Light, as m'odilied by the Nature of the Electrodes and the 



Media of Discharge, 4to. (pp. 48), sewn, ivith inscr. to the Abbe Moigno [shorn), 3s %d 1862 



14366 ROBISON (John, f.r.s.e., Prof. Natural Philos., Univ. Edin.) Elements of Mechanical 

 Philosophy, Vol. I (all published) : Dynamics and Astronomy, with 22 plates, thick Svo. 

 calf, 6s Edin., 1804 



• MissC. Daily presented by her affectionate Uncle [Francis Baily, f.r.s.1. June 9. I'ii^.'—Tnscr. on flyleaf. 



14367 — ^ On the Motion of Light, as affected by Refracting and Reflecting Substances, which are 



also in Motion, with plate, 4to. (pp. 31), sewn, with inscr. to Dr. Nevil Maskelyne, pr., F.R.S. [as 

 below), (is 6d ' ibidem, 1788 



'To the Kev'i. D'-. Maskelyne Astr'-. Royal from his most obedt hbK' Servtthe Author.'— J (iscr. on title. 

 Treating of the aberration ot light while passing through the telescope tube, and on Boscovich's water telescope. 



14368 System of Mechanical Philosophy, Avith J<otes by Sir David Brewster, f.r.s., 



with 50 folding plates, 4 thick vols. Svo. hf. cl., uncut, 12s 6d ib., 1822 



14369 Another Copy, with the Plates bound separately, 5 vols., boards, uncut, 12s Qd 



14370 Another Copy, 5 vols., hf. calf [Plates in cl.), 14s 



Consisting of reprints of papers contributed to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and articles in the 

 Encyiiopedta Jirltannica. The article on the steam engine in v. II was revised aud enlarged by James Watt, the author's 

 friend, who acknowledged that Robison suggested to liim the application of the steam engine to locomotion in 1759. 



Watt kept Robison informed of all his later inventions, and Robison's evidence proved afterwards of groat service in 

 defending Watt'spatent against infringement before a court of law in 17%. . . . In 1769 Robison anticipated Meyer in the 

 important electrical discovery that the law of force is very nearly or exactly in inverse square.'— i>. N. B. 



'Exhibiting a more complete view of the modern improvements of physical science than has ever before been in 

 the possession of the British public, and displaying such a combination of acquired knowledge with original power 

 ot reasoning as has fallen to the lot of a very few of the most favoured of mankind.'— Dr. Thorms Young, F.R.S. 

 One of the greatest mathematical philosophers of his age.'— 6/?- /ai/ies- Maclcintosh. 



14371 , Biographical Account of, by John Playfair, f.r.s., 4to. (pp. 47), sewn, with author's 



inscr. to Thomas Allan, F.R.S., Zs 6rf [ib ,1 1815 



14372 BOBISON (Robert), and Frederic Stanley KtPPING ; f.r.s. : Organic Derivatives 

 of Silicon: Part V: Benzylethylsilicone, Dibenzylsilicon, and other Benzyl and Benzylethyl 

 Derivatives of Silicane, Svo. (pp. 18), sewn. Is Qd ' . 1908 



