SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION. 
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OF SCIENCE 
AND ANNALS OF 
ASTRONOMY, BIOLOGY, GEOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL ARTS, 
MANUFACTURES, AND TECHNOLOGY. 
(MONTHLY, FORMERLY “THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL CF SCIENCE.”) 
PBBBI J A 
1880 . 
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No. LXXIV. 
CONTENTS 
Articles. 
page i 
i. The London Water-Supply.. 73 
2\ The Formation of Coal. By 
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W. Mattieu Williams, 
F.R.A.S., F.C.S 
3. Living Honeycomb : a Novel 
Phase of Ant Life 
4. Edmund Halley : his Life and 
Work 
5. The Height and Span of the 
Japanese 
6. English and American Phy- 
sique. By George M. 
Beard, M.D 
Lectures. 
On Water and Air. By Prof. 
Tyndall, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. 
81 
87 
9i 
104 
Reports on New Inventions. page 
Holiway’s Process for Reducing 
Metallic Sulphides without 
External Fuel. By W. Mat- 
tieu Williams, F.R.A.S. .. 131 
Analyses of Books. 
Stanford’s Compendium of Geo- 
graphy and Travel 135 
A Treatise on Chemistry .. .. 136 
A Manual of Palaeontology for 
the Use of Students .. .. 137 
Studies on Fermentation, their 
Causes, and the Means of Pre- 
venting them 138 
Correspondence 139 
Academies and Societies . . . . 140 
Notes 142 
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