WORKS 



ON 



SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY, 



PUBLISHED BY MR. MURRAY. 



I. 



VIEW OF THE MOTIONS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES. 



With a popular INTRODUCTION. 



By MRS. SOMERVILLE. 8vo. 30*. 



II. 



ON THE RECIPROCAL CONNEXION OF THE PHY- 

 SICAL SCIENCES. 

 By MRS. SOMERVILLE. 



Being the substance of the Preliminary Essay prefixed to the " Me- 

 chanism of the Heavens," enlarged and adapted for the general and 

 unscientific reader, in one small volume. 



" We have, indeed, no hesitation in saying, that we consider the Preliminary Disser- 

 tation by far the best condensed view of the Newtonian ph/ilosophy which has yet 

 appeared." Quarterly Review. 



III. 



FIRST AND SECOND REPORT OF THE 

 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 



SCIENCE, 



At YORK, in the year 1831, and at OXFORD in 1832. In one vol. 8vo. 

 CONTENTS: PART I. 



1. Rev. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT. Exposition of the OBJECT and PLAN 



of the ASSOCIATION. 



2. DETAILED ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS at YORK, in September, 1831. 



PART II. 

 REPORTS read to the SOCIETY at OXFORD, June, 1832, viz. 



1. PROFESSOR AIRY, F.R.S., on the State and Progress of PHYSICAL 



ASTRONOMY. 



2. J. W. LUBBOCK, Esq., on the TIDES. 



3. J. D. FORBES, Esq., F.R.S., on the Present State of METEOROLOGICAL 



SCIENCE. 



4. Sir DAVID BREWSTER, F.R.S. L.&E., on the Progress of OPTICAL SCIENCE. 



5. Rev. R. WILLIS, on the PHENOMENA of SOUND. 



6. Rev. PROFESSOR POWELL, on the PHENOMENA of HEAT. 



7. Rev. PROFESSOR GUMMING, on THERMO-ELECTRICITY. 



8. F. W. JOHNSTONE, Esq., on the Recent Progress of CHEMICAL SCIENCE. 



9. Rev. PROFESSOR WHEWELL, M.A., F.R.S., on the State and Progress of 



MINERALOGICAL SCIENCE. 



10. Rev. W. CONYBEARE, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., on the Recent Progress, Present 



State, and Ulterior Development of GEOLOGY. 



Together with an Account of the Public Proceedings of the Society, and of the Daily 

 Transactions of the Sub-Committees during the period of the meeting. 

 Will be published in a few days. 



