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examples, show that the author is not only master of his subject as a 
practical metallurgist, but that he also has rare skill as a teacher in science. 
It is a work that should be in every public library, and in the hands of 
every metallurgist and practical chemist. It is to be completed in four 
volumes, accompanied with lithographic plates containing oe of 
Sie s, etc. 
Bla present de la ae du Fer en Sepia st MM. 
Gre NER et Lan. 8vo, pp. 850, with nine plates. Paris, 1862,.—This 
work has for the most part been published in a series of memoirs 
in the Annales des Mines; but many who have not the numbers of 
in the School for Mines at Saint Etienne. These gentlemen were sent 
by order of the Minister of Public Affairs in France, in May and psi 
1860, to report upon the iron districts of Great Britain; they we 
offered every facility for making their investigations, and the ae 
which they have published in _ volume form a most pepeent con- 
tribution to the metallurgy o 
4, Berg- und Hoteeaamasales Jahrbuch der k. k. Bergakademi en , Leo- 
ben und Schemniiz, und der k. k. Montan-Lehranstalt Pribram-Redak- 
teur: P. Tunner. 8vo, 261 pp. Wien, 1863.—This annual of the 
Mining Academies of Leoben and Schemnitz is one of the most important 
repositories of metallur urgical eh snc The present 12th volume, 
edited by Director Tunner, is of more than usual interest, as almost half 
of it is taken up with a report on the objects of interest in metallurgy 
which were contained in the International Exhibition at apa ti in —_ . 
5. Die mea acer des ee Hiittengewerbes im Gel 1882, 
Dargestell Dr. Carn. Fr. Avex. Hartmann. Sixth volume, with 
3 Bchogeaphis plates in tne 8v0, pp. gue? Leipzig, a —This we 
is an annual report of the of metallurgy, givi 
all that is published in regard to the metallangreal Aaa of the 
r Seve and new facts in a to fuel, blowing m: me ees and 
“ie 
Price 1 shilling sterlin aE This report has but just ieached us, and much 
that it sok tala has aieady been republished in this country. The 
rofessor of min- 
. . Metals : es being 
*  tecord of what was contained i in Class I, it contains many aiakie notes 
as p 
gh in the Royal ‘School of Mines, and experience 
the Crown and to the Duchy of Cornwall, gave <o — facilities 
for obtaining accurate information in regard to these subjects. G. J, B. 
Am. Jour. Sc1.—Szconp Series, Vou. XXXVI, No. 107.—Sepr., 1863. 
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