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HOLIDAYS ON HIGH LANDS ; or, Rambles and Incidents in 

 search of Alpine Plants. Crown 8vo. cloth. 6^-. 



The aim of this book is to hnpart a genej^al idea of the oidgin^ cha- 

 racter^ and distribution of those rare and beautiful Alpine plants: 

 which occur on the British hills, and zvhich are found almost every- 

 where on the lofty mountain chains of Etcrope, Asia, Africa, and 

 America, In the first three chapters the peculiar vegetation of the 

 Highland mountains is fully described ; while in the re7?zainin^ 

 chapters this vegetation is traced to its northern ci^adle in the moun- 

 tains of No7 way, and to its southern European termination in the 

 Alps of Szuitzerland, The information the author has to give is 

 conveyed in a setting of personal adventure, ^^ One of the most 

 charming books op its kind ever tvritten,^^ — Literary Churchman. 



" Mj", M^ s gloiving pictures of Scandinavian scenery,'^— Saturday 

 Review. 



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FOOT-NOTES FROM THE PAGE OF NATURE. With 



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numerous Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo. 5^-. 



*' Those who have derived pleasure and profit from the study of flowers 

 and ferns — subjects, it is pleasing to find, now everywhere popular 

 ■by descending lozuer into the arcana of the vegetable kingdom^ 

 will find a still fuoi^e interesting and delightful field of research in 

 the objects brought under revieiv in the following pages, ^^ — Preface. 

 The naturalist and the botanist zvill delight in this volume, and 

 those who unde^^stand little of the scientific parts of the work will 

 linger over the mysterious page of nature here unfolded to their 

 view,^^ — ^John Bull. 



Mansfield (C. B.)~A theory of salts, a Treatise 

 on the Constitution of Bipolar (two-membered) Chemical Com- 



.pounds. By the late Charles Blachford Mansfield. Crown 



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14^-. 



^^ Mansfield,'''' says the editor, ^'tvrote this book to defend the prin- 

 ciple that the fact of voltaic decomposition afforded the true indi- 

 cation, if properly interpreted, of the nature of the saline stru^ture^ 

 and of the atomicity of the elements that built it up. No chemist 

 will pei^use this book without feeling that he is in the presence of an- 



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