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tions of the principles of his science — a subject which is naturally attractive 
to the uninitiated. Mr. Williams’s object has been well carried out, and his 
little book may be recommended to those who care to study this interesting 
branch of physics. 
ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY .* 
D R. KEMSHEAD’S elementary work on Inorganic Chemistry was 
originally written for the use of students preparing for the May 
examination of the Science and Art Department. That it has well served 
its purpose is apparent from the fact that it has now reached its second 
edition and twentieth thousand. When it first appeared it was notable as 
one of the earliest text-books in which Dr. Frankland’s notation was 
adopted. The new edition has been corrected where necessary to bring it 
into accordance with the recent progress of chemistry. 
TABLES FOR ANALYSIS.! 
I T is not a very ambitious chemical feat to analyse, qualitatively, a simple 
salt. Mr. Yinter is teacher at the Leys School in Cambridge, where 
the pupils generally. cannot spend, we are sorry to hear, more than one hour 
a-week in the work of the laboratory. As a guide to the method of ex- 
amining a simple salt he has prepared these tables, which for the last four 
years he has found useful in his own class. They appear to be clear, concise, 
and accurate ; and may therefore usefully serve the purpose for which they 
are sent forth. 
THE GARDENS OF THE SUN.! 
ril HE GARDENS OF THE SUN is the somewhat fanciful name con- 
-L ferred by Mr. Burbidge upon the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, 
in some of which he passed some time collecting plants for Messrs. Yeitch. 
Of their beauty he speaks in the most enthusiastic terms ; and although in 
this respect he may be regarded as only confirming the statements of earlier 
writers, his account of his individual impressions is of interest, and may 
serve to give a new colour to the notions entertained by his readers. 
* Inorganic Chemistry. By Dr. W. B. Kemshead, F.C.S., &c. Twentieth 
thousand, revised and corrected. 8vo. London & Glasgow : W. Collins, 
Sons, & Co. 
t Tables for the Analysis of a Simple Salt, for use in School Laboratories. 
By A. Yinter, M. A. 8vo. London : Longmans & Co. 1880. 
X The Gardens of the Sun; or, a Naturalist' s Journal in the Mountains 
and in the Forests and Swamps of Borneo, and the Sulu Archipelago. By 
F. W. Burbidge. 8vo. London : John Murray. 1880. 
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