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Books reccibco for EebtdxL 



From Messrs. Longman & Co. : — 



Manual of Geology. By Bev. Samuel Haugliton, M.D., F.E.S. , Professor 

 of Geology in the University of Dublin. With 66 Wood Engravings. 

 370 pp. Fcap. Svo. 



Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland : a Narrative of Subterranean Ex- 

 ploration. By Eev. G. F. Browne, M.A., Fellow of St. Catherine's College, 

 Cambridge. With Engravings. 320 pp. Demy 8vo. 



Practice with Science ; a Series of Agricultural Papers. Part I. 252 pp. 

 Demy Svo. With Engravings 



The Elements of Physics ; or, Natural Philosophy. Written for general 

 use in untechnical language. By Neil Arnott, M.D., F.E.S. Part. II. 



Brande and Cox's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art. 



From Mr. Van Voorst : — 



British Conchology ; or, an Account of the Mollusca which now Inhabit 

 the Britlsh Isles and the Surrounding Seas. Vol. III. Marine Shells. 

 By John Gwyn Jeffreys, F.E.S., F.G.S. 8 Plates. 396 pp. Post Svo. 



From Mr. E. Hardwicke : — 



On Letters Patent for Inventions. By Frederick Edwards, jun. 94 pp. 

 8vo. 



From Mr. C. F. Winter. Leipzig and Heidelberg : — ■ 



Supplement zur Klimatographischen Uebersicht der Erde. Mit einem 

 Appendix, enthaltend Untersuchungen uber das Wind System und eine 

 kartliche Darstellung des Systems der Erd-Meteoration. Von Adolf 

 Miihry, M.D. With Charts and Engravings. 328 pp. 8vo. 



From Messrs. Bagster & Sons : — 



The Physical History of the Earth. Meditations by a Student. 134 pp. 

 Fcap. 8vo. 



PAMPHLETS. 



Observations on the Skeleton of a Hottentot. By Jeffries Wyman, M.D. 

 From the Proceedings of the Boston (U.S.A.) Natural History Society. 



Preliminary Investigations of the Mechanical Properties of the Pro- 

 posed Atlantic Cable. By William Fairbairn, F.E.S. 



On the Ultimate Nerve Fibres distributed to Muscle and some other 

 Tissues; with Observations upon the Structure and probable Mode of 

 Action of a Nervous Mechanism. The Croonian Lecture for 1865. By 

 Lionel J. Beale, M.B., F.E.S. 



On the Occurrence of Stone Implements in Lateritic Formations in 

 various Parts of the Madras and North Arcot Districts. By E. Bruce 

 Foote, Geological Survey of India. 27 Plates. 40 pp. Post 8vo. 



Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Delivered by the President, John Phillips, M.A. Oxon., LL.D. Dublin, 

 F.E.S., F.G.S., &c. 



Address at the Anniversary Meeting of the Eoyal Geographical Society. 

 By Sir E. Murchison, K.C.B., F.E.S., &c. 



Eepoet on the Physiological Action of the Nitrite of Amyl. By B. W. 

 Eichardson, M.A., M.D. 

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