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BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" The Chemist and Druggist" : a monthly trade circular. London : 

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 "The Railway and the Mine." 



Lever's "Illustrated Year Book," 1861. London: Simpkin and 

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Paper " On Flint Implements from the Drifts," read before the 

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" On the Vestiges of Extinct Glaciers in the Highlands of Great 

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