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lecturer in the Royal ae, Academy at Woolwich has very 
properly led him to give more than usual prominence to those 
subjects which are of sacienik td the military student, as, combus- 
tion and fuel, gunpowder, gun-cotton and other explosives, the 
process of bread making, glass, pottery, the chemistry of building 
materials, and kindred subjects 
4, Report of the Mt. Uniache, Oldham, and ae Gold 
Mining Districts, with Plans and Sections; by Henry Yous 
Hinp, M. ade under instructions from the Hon. Cotininathinas 
of Public Works and Mines. 62 pp. 8vo. With maps and sec- 
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once for publication, have been issued. They a are views of 
Jupiter, craters of the moon, the sun’s protuberances, the — a2 
the total eclipses of August, 1869, and of December, 1870, 
and are very beautiful. The series will consist of thir irty eae 
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OBITUARY. 
Joun F, Frazer, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemis- 
try in the University of vist at bbepeaa died on the 12th of October, 
in the ing ver of his a 
self i ie membership for a ong time of the Ist ‘ity Troop 
He arition at ~_ organization to suppress oe ots of °44 
At the 
razer Sis i he assistant of Prof. pe Dallas ge a 
the Coast Survey, during his observation at the then new physica cal 
observatory for magnetic phenomena at Girard College. In both 
these instances he was a voluntary assistant. 
1836 he became the assistant of Professor Henry D. we _ 
Lovie lature. Professor Frazer igned this position as First 
Assistant State leaioiet ger apie one creke, and then took up the 
study of law in the office of Hon, Wm. M. Meredith. Having 
