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POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
Peking Observatory : Jesuit Instruments. 
Chinese architecture, we shall consider that we have discharged a debt 
which every reviewer owes to its author. 
THE AERIAL WORLD.* 
YI7HILE works upon any branch of natural history, or botany or geology 
» V which are written for the general public cannot have in them any- 
thing that is particularly novel, a book which treats upon the atmosphere 
may yet present many facts that appear even to the educated man perlectly 
new. And the reason of this simply is, that while natural history has been 
dealt with as a popular pastime — almost, we might say, since the time of 
Goldsmith — the facts of meteorology — that is, the move striking phenomena 
* “ The Aerial World : A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life 
of the Atmosphere.” By G. Hart-wig, M.D., Ph.D. London: Longmans, 
1874 . 
We have not done justice to this fine work ; but if we have said sufficient 
to show how excellent an account it is of Chinese manners and of ancient 
