740 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



14776 SCOFFERN" (John, Prof. Chem., Aldersgate Coll.] CHEMISTRY of the INORGANIC BODIES : 

 their Compounds and Equivalents, with numerous woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 3s 1856 



14777 : CHEMISTRY NO MYSTERY, or a Lecturer's Bequest, being a Course of Lectures, edited 



by DR. SCOFFERN ; 2nd Edition, revised and corrected, with Cruikshankian vignette on title, and 

 numerous woodcuts, 12mo. cl., 3s Qd [1848] 



14778 PROJECTILE WEAPONS of WAR and EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS ; 3rd Edition, revised, with 



frontispiece and woodcuts : NEW RESOURCES of WARFARE, with especial Reference to RIFLED 



ORDNANCE, in their chief known Varieties, including authenticated Weight, Measurement, and 

 Mode of Construction of ARMSTRONG'S WROUGHT IRON BREECH-LOADING GUNS, with their Shell* 

 and Fuses, with woodcuts 2 vols. post 8vo. in 1, hf. calf (scarce). Is Qd 1858-9 



14779 , Sir William FAIRBAIRN, F.R.S., and others: The USEFUL METALS and their 



ALLOYS, including Mining Ventilation, Mining Jurisprudence, and Metallurgical Chemistry, with 

 plates, and numerous woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl., 3s 1857 or '66 



14780 SCOTT (Michael, M.I.C.E.) OCCASIONAL PAPERS (Civil Engineering. Gunnery and Naval 

 Architecture), with 13 large folding plates and plans (2 coloured), 2 vols. 8vo. cl., with author's 

 inscr. to Sir F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S., and the latter's auto., 8s Qd (p. 2. 2s) 1874 



14781 REPRINT, with 13 large folding plates and plans (2 coloured), 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, cl., 



Is Qd 1881 



14782 SCOTT (Robert Forsyth) TREATISE on the THEORY of DETERMINANTS and their APPLIC- 

 ATIONS in ANALYSIS and GEOMETRY, 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 9s nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1880 



'The principal novelty of the treatise lies in the systematic use of Grassmann's alternate units, by means' of which 

 the study of determinants is, I believe, much simplified.' Preface. 



14783 SCOTT (William Berryman, Princeton Univ.) INTRODUCTION to GEOLOGY, with 12 plates 

 and 169 other illustrations, chiefly from photographs, thick large cr. 8vo. cl., 6s (p. lls nett) 



New York, 1897 



14784 SCOUTETTEN (Robert Joseph Henri) L'OzoNE : Recherches Chimiques, Meteorologiques, 

 Physiologiques et Me"dicales sur 1'Oxygene Electrise ; with coloured plate, and folding tables, 

 post 8vo. sewn (o. p.), 4s 1856 



14785 SCROPE (George Julius Poulett, M.P., F.R.S.) CONSIDERATIONS on VOLCANOS, the probable 

 Causes of their Phenomena, the Laws which determine their March, the Disposition of their 

 Products, and their Connexion with the present State and past History of the Globe ; leading to 

 the Establishment of a NEW THEORY of the EARTH, with 2 folding plates, 33 woodcuts, and map, 

 8vo. boards (back torn off) ; scarce, with inscr. ' From the Author ', 10s 1825 



'Full of accurate information, careful inductions, and suggestive inferences ; it enunciates emphatically the doctrine 

 afterwards developed by Lyell and called ' Uniformitarian,' but as it was necessarily controversial, was much in advance 

 of its age, and had ventured into a cosmological speculation, it did not meet with a generally favourable reception.' 

 Prof. Bonney, pr., F.R.S. 



14786 - -The GEOLOGY and EXTINCT VOLCANOES of CENTRAL FRANCE; 2nd [last] Edition, 

 enlarged, with folding panoramic views, woodcuts, and maps in pocket, 8vo. cl., uncut (SCARCE), 

 16s Qd 1858 



' The second edition is still carefully read by every geologist who visits Auvergne. Lyell, who reviewed the first 

 edition in the Quarterly Review, justly called it the most able work which had appeared since Playfair's ' Illustration of 

 the Huttouian Theory'.' 'Prof. 'Bonney, F.R.S. 



14787 VOLCANOES : their Phenomena, Share in the Structure and Composition of the Earth's 



Surface, and Relation to its Internal Forces, with CATALOGUE of all known VOLCANOES ; 2nd 

 [last] Edition, enlarged, with map, coloured frontispiece, and woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 10s 1862 



A new edition of the ' Considerations ', designed ' to dispel that signal delusion, as to the mode of action of subtelluric 

 forces, with which the elevation-crater theory had during the intervening period mystified the geological world.' Dedication. 



14788 SEABROOK (Arthur Hugh/M.i.E.E.j The MANAGEMENT of PUBLIC ELECTRIC SUPPLY 

 UNDERTAKINGS, ivith folding tables, roy. 8vo. cl., 4s Qd (p. 7s Qd net) 1913 



14789 SEARLE (Arthur) The ZODIACAL LIGHT, with plate, 8vo. (pp. 55), sewn, Is Qd [n. p., 1883] 



14790 SEATON (Albert Edward, M.I.C.E.) The SCREW PROPELLER, and other competing Instru- 

 ments for Marine Propulsion, with 1 plates, and 65 diagrams, large 8vo. cl., 8s (p. 12s Qd nett) 1909 



14791 , and Henry Morrison ROUNTHWAITE : POCKET BOOK of MARINE ENGINEERING 



RULES and TABLES, with 64 diagrams, 12mo. limp roan, g. e., 3s (p. 8s Qd) 1894 



14792 SEAWARD (John) OBSERVATIONS on the RE-BUILDING of LONDON BRIDGE : demonstrating 

 the Practicability of executing that Work in THREE FLAT ELLIPTICAL ARCHES of STONE, each 

 230 Feet Span, with Examination of the Arch of Equilibrium proposed by Dr. Hutton, and a 

 New Method for forming such a Arch, with 7 folding plates, and 22 diagrams, 8vo. hf. calf, 6s 1824 

 This venturesome scheme might perhaps have been just practicable, but we may be well content with Rennie's 

 noble work. 



14793 SEAWARD (Samuel, F.R.S.) MEMOIR on the PRACTICABILITY of SHORTENING the DURATION 

 of VOYAGES, by the Adaptation of AUXILIARY STEAM POWER to SAILING VESSELS, with folding 

 plate, and folding table on linen, 4to. cl., Qs 1841 



Giving an account of the speed trials of the S.S. Vernon, which 'accomplished the whole distance between Spithead 

 the Calcutta [round the Cape], by the alternate agency of steam and wind, in the short period of 95 days, being one of 

 and shortest passages on record.' The Navy went muddling on with a mixture of steam and sails for fifty years after this. 



14794 SECCHI (Angelo, s. J., Collegio Romano; F.R.S.) DESCRIZIONE dell' USSERVATORIO MAGNETICO 

 del COLLEGIO ROMANO, e Sunto delle Osservazioni fatte nel 1859 e 1860; with 3 folding plates 

 (2 of magnetical instruments), roy. 4to. (pp. 54), sewn, 3s Roma, 1860 



14795 SEEBECK (Thomas Johann ; discoverer of thermo-electricity) Uber den in alien MET ALLEN 

 durch VERTHEILUNG zu ERREGENDEN MAGNETISMUS, 4to. (pp. 24), sewn, with author's inscr. as 

 below, Is Qd Berlin,, 1828 



' Herrn Eduard Solly [F.R.S.] vom Verfasser Berlin d. 13' c Januar 1828.' Inscr. on flyleaf. 



The author investigates in the above paper the vibrations of the magnetic needle in the mariner's compass, and suggests 

 replacing the iron bowl by a nickle-copper alloy to damp the vibrations by exciting currents of induced electricity. 



