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work, which ee a 4 deer to the rd optics, to which Fm Billet has 
devoted himse s quite as importa instru wrdick labors of 
Thomson, at : aS aed have contributed mai t of ihe mate 
Photographic Chemistry, arreswill and Davanne, in 8vo, 2d { edition. — Within 
a few years the first edition of this work, announced by us, has been ee pe 
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ss in photography, they have attached great importance to the processes on col- 
lodion and on paper, and place d the pecoerrotyPe in the gen Bing 
luminium, its nature, manufactu _ , by H. St. Claire peter 
in 8vo, 176 pages, with plates.—This seoprta nt has rel mentioned in 
communication o e 126. It contains the metic pth of the subject, and 
municates many fatergating details. N oS ee that the French government 
and private individuals have contributed to searches on aluminium, Deville 
informs us that he has sacrificed to it a large po ‘of his personal fortune. 
rent was for thirty years professor in the forest school of Nancy; he has trai 
many pupils, and some of them are, like himself, devoted to 
Scientific Essays, by Victor Meunier, in 12 nos. of 212 pages. ‘Vol. 3d—We ‘hate 
already spoken of this work o age science, devoted especially ae ina 
and discoveries which have not been made by those who were perly 
journal, L’Amis des Sciences, by the sam — or, is devoted 
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vers of medicine and pharm y, as well as whatever is absurd in porary 
Pear 
Annals of “te 7 Obsereatory, — by Leverrier. Vol. 4, in 4to. Paris: 
Mallet & Bac —This importa a is devoted to the theory and to tables 
of the pear pan of the aa iti is en inty from the hand of M. Leverrier, 
ho has impressed it wi amp of his 0 
Catalytic Force, or Inve ye gee on the 5 a ena of ae, by T. L. Phip 
son. A pamphlet in 4to of 34 pages—This work was crowned by the Holland 
mo phenomena 
Society of Sciences in 1858. e author examines ch care the 
ic; he rp: these phenomena on a ground-work of known facts, 
he concludes that ts only in name, and that the force known 
a pure fiction 
