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always attractive from its clearness, precision and polish, and any 
cultivated person, whether previously acquainted with chemistry 
or not, can read this discussion of chemical philosophy with both 
pleasure and profit. It is needless to add that the subject is dis- 
cussed as its title demands, in the terms of the new chemistry. 
3. Annual Report upon the Geographical and Geological Sur- 
veys and Eeplorations west of the 100th Meridian, in Nevada, 
tah, Colorado, Mexico and Arizona; by Grorcr M. 
Wue&e er, First Lieut. of Engineers, U.S. A. Being Appendix 
EE of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1873. 
12 pp. 8vo, with a Map.—From this brief report of Lieut. Wheeler 
we learn that, while the work in the field will be continued, it is 
proposed that arrangements should go into effect at once for the 
logical work for the same years, and occupying about 225 pages ; 
The Stone Age, Past and Piesent, by E. B. Taylor, and there 
of a Nervous Ether, by Dr. Richardson, make No. 9 of Estes 
Laureat’s “ Half Hour Recreations in Popular Science.” 
