EDUCATIONAL BOOKS. 



SCIENCE PRIMERS FOR ELEMENTARY 



SCHOOLS. 



The necessity of commencing the teaching of Science in Schools at an 

 early stage of the pupil's course has now become generally recog- 

 nized, and is enforced in all Schools unddir Government inspection. 

 For the purpose of facilitating the introduction of Science 

 Teaching into Elementary Schools, Messrs. Macmillan are now 

 publishing a New Series of Science Primers, under the joint 

 Editorship of Professors Huxley, Roscoe, and Balfour 

 Stewart. The object of these Primers is to convey information 

 in such a manner as to make it both intelligible and interesting to 

 pupils in the most elementary classes. They are clearly printed on 

 good paper, and illustrations are given whenever they are necessary 

 to the proper understanding of the text. The following are just 

 published : — 

 PRIMER OF CHEMISTRY. By H. E. Roscoe, Professor of 

 Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. i8mo. \s. Third 

 Edition. 

 PRIMER OF PHYSICS. By Balfour Stewart, Professor of 

 Natural Philosophy m Owens College, Manchester. i8mo. \s. 

 Third Edition. 

 PRIMER OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By Archibald 

 Geikie, F.R. S., Murchison-Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 

 at Edinburgh. Second Edition. i8mo. \s. 

 Everyone ought to know something about the air we breathe and the 

 earth we live upon, and about the relations between them; and in this 

 little work the author wishes to show what sort of questions may be put 

 about some of the chief parts of the book of nature, and especially about two 

 oj them — the Air and the Earth. The divisions of the book are as 

 follows: — The Shape of the Earth — Dav and Night — The Air — The 

 Circulation of Water on the Land — The Sea — ■ The Inside of the Earth. 

 PRIMER OF GEOLOGY. By Professor Geikie, r.R.S. With 

 numerous Illustrations. Second Edition. iSmo. cloth. \s. 

 In these Primers the authors have aimed, not so much to give informa- 

 tion, as to endeavour to discipline the mind in a way which has not 

 hitherto been customary, by bringing it into immediate contact with 

 Nature herself. For this purpose a series of simple experiments {to be 

 performed by the teacher") has been devised, leading up to the chief truths 

 of each Science. Thus the power of observation in the pupils will, be 

 awakened and strengthened. Each Manual is copiously illustrated, and 

 appended are lists of all the necessary apparatus, with prices, and 

 directions as to how they may be obtained. Professor Huxley's introduc- 

 tory volume has been delayed through the illness of the author, but it is 

 now expected to appear very shortly. " They are wonderfully clear and 

 lucid in their instruction, simple in style, and admirable in plan. " — 

 Educational Times. 



