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desirable. This is mad to the professional astronomer 7 the mul- 
titude of tables, references, tenga - with whic e book is 
crowded. Every person who ses a telescope should have 
this work. We would call seul ‘sian to the chapters on comets, 
petit and nebule, and celestial photography, and also to - catalogue 
is convenient in the om The three phot on Meteoric he 
age are, however, unworthy of a 0g in the boo ci 
. Ei udes et Lectures sur l Astronomie, par nie LLE FLAMMARION. 
ome I, 18mo, pp. 262. Paris, 1867. "(Gauthi thie Villa ars.) —This is a col- 
lection of several very interesting articles, written originally for the Cosmos 
and the Revue Contemporaine, giving the recent progress of astronomi- 
cal science. The principal subjects are, the Nature and Physical Consti- 
tution of the Sun, the Minor Planets, Comets, Eclipses, Terrestrial Ma 
netism, Shooting Stars, the Nebula and Cosmogony. At the end of the 
volume is a celestial chart giving the apparent paths of the planets dur- 
ing the year 1867, a device which we heartily commend to anac 
makers. 
5, Weights and Measures according to the Decimal System, with 
tables of conversion for Commercial and Scientific uses ; by B. F. Crate, 
48 pp., 16mo. New York, 1867. (D. Van Nostrand.)—A con- 
venient and handsomely printed little manual intended to aid in convert- 
ing the common weights and — into those of the French or deci- 
e values a 
s, with th 
values in the decimal system ; and then of the decimal weights and meas- 
ures with the corresponding values in the English weights and measures. 
neralogy simplified: A short method of _eiareing minerals, by means of 
ae chemical —-s in the dry and wet way. Translated from the I last 
German edition of i Faaycage with an Fobadomid to Blowpi pipe Analysis and 
other eo by . Het 1 Erni, = ef Chem. Dept. of dane, 206 pp., 
12mo. 1867. ‘philadelphia “CLC 
Repo 2 of the Chief Commissioner a Mines from the Provkice of Nova Scotia 
for the year 1866. 88 pp., 8vo. ifax. 
port of a Commissioner e “Agreilenn for the year 1865. 608 pp., 8vo. 
weeneve 
ocenDises oa Nar. Hist. Soc., Vol. XI—P. 17, Description of Salpa Clae 
bo i Desor; Alex. A ig 0S ge 27, Notes on rg oa = a ter ‘ome 
ra Nar. at ELPHIA ote Oct. and i Nees 1866-— 
P. 292, On the period and f the annual increase in the circu 
Mechan.~p. 298, Contribution to the history of the Balenide 
1. Cope.— 0, Reptilia and Ba ia of the 
artic bee, E. — Co it; tribution to the 
Con 
; <p. 323, On the agricultural ant (M. ria ); & 
—p. 331, "Description of some new species of diurnal oeereneils if 
