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13046 PEARSON (Q-eorge, M.D., F.R.S. ; early vaccinator) WORKS, as under, with 6 folding copper- 

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CONTENTS: I. The Substance of Nine Lectures on Vegetation and Agriculture, by WILLIAM CULLEN, M.D. ; F.R.S., 

 with a few Notes by George Pearson (pp. 41), 1768 : II. Experiments and Observations tending to show the Composition 

 of Urinary Concretions (pp. 34), 'f7 : III. Experiments and Observations to ascertain the Nature of the Gaz [sic] pro- 

 duced by passing Electric Discharges through Water, with plate (pp. 17), '96 : IV. Observations on some ancient Metallic 

 Anns and Utensils ; with Experiments to determine their Composition, with 2 plates (pp. 57), 1800 : V. Experiments and 

 Observations to investigate the Nature of a kind of Steel manufactured at Bombay, called Wootz (pp. 25), 1795 : 

 VI. Observation and Experiments on a Wax-like Substance, resembling the Pe-la of the Chinese (pp. 21), '94: VII. Ex- 

 periments made with a View of Decompounding Fixed Air, or Carbonic Acid (pp. 22), '92 : VIII. Memoire sur le Phosphate 

 de Soude cristallise en Rhombe (pp. 4), '88. 



The above copy belonged to Henry Bower, K.S.A., who has added a pedigree. All the pamphlets bear presentation 

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 ' including a description of Uric Acid, a term invented by Pearson ', which should endear him to the modern well-to-dO' 

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13047 EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS to investigate the COMPOSITION of JAMES'S POWDER, 



4to. (pp. 51), sewn, 4* 1791 



' James's Powder ' was chiefly oxide of antimony, and had a long patent medicine career as a fever powder, in which it had 

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 by a* Dr. Robert James, an acquaintance of Dr. Johnson's, and grandfather of G. P. R. James. 



Added is : An Account of some Chemical Experiments on Tabasheer, by JAMES Louis MACIE (pp. 21). 



13048 OBSERVATIONS and EXPERIMENTS on a WAX-LIKE SUBSTANCE resembling the PE-LA of 



the CHINESE, collected at Madras by DR. ANDERSON, and called by him WHITE LAC, 4to. (pp. 19), 

 sewn, 35 6d 1794 



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13050 [ ] The ELEMENTS of the CALCULUS of FINITE DIFFERENCES, treated on the METHOD of 



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F.R.S.) The GRAMMAR of SCIENCE, with 25 illustrations, cr. 8vo. cl. (scarce), 5s 1892 



Comprising : Facts of Science ; Scientific Law ; Cause and Effect ; Probability ; Space and Time ; Geometry of Motion ;. 



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13054 MATHEMATICAL CONTRIBUTIONS to the THEORY of EVOLUTION : VII : On the CORRE- 

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13056 : On the VIBRATIONS in the FIELD round a THEORETICAL HERTZIAN OSCILLATOR, 



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13057 PEARSON (R. West, of Manchester] On the DETERMINATION of BISMUTH by WEIGHT and 

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13058 PEARSON (William, pr., F.R.S.) INTRODUCTION to PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY, VOL. I : contain- 

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' For this publication, styled by Sir John Herschel ' one of the most important and extensive works on that subject 

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13059 PECKHAM (Stephen Farnum, Special Agent, U.S. Census) REPORT on the PRODUCTION, 

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13060 PECLET (Jean Claude Eugene) TRAITE de I'ECLAIRAGE ; with 10 folding plates, post 8vo- 

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This work contains the first theoretical investigation on the illuminating power and oil consumption of lamps, as well 

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13062 On the VOLATILITY of some of the COMPOUNDS of MERCURY, and of the Metal itself, roy. 



8vo. (pp. 11), sewn, with inscr. to Sir E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Is Qd ibidem, 1889 



13063 , and C. J. H. WARDEN : On the NATURE and Toxic PRINCIPLE of the AROIDE.E, 



roy. 8vo. (pp. 12), sewn, Is Qd ib. t 1888 



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13066 PELLET (A. E.) THESE sur la THEORIE des EQUATIONS ALGEBRIQUES. sur la THEORIE 



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13067 PELLET (Henri), et A. ALLART: ANALYSE des FONTES; with woodcut, 12mo. (pp. 16), 

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