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Presents. 
ARTS (SOCIETY OF). Transactions of the Society instituted at 
London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com- 
merce : with the Premiums offered in the year 1827-8. Vol. XLVT. 
8vo. Lond. 1828. 
ASIATIC SOCIETY (ROYAL). Transactions of the Royal Asiatic 
Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II. Part I. 4to. 
Lond. 1829. 
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. Memoirs of the Astronomical So- 
ciety of London. Vol. III. Part. II. 4to. Lond. 1829. 
Monthly Notices of the Proceedings 
of the Astronomical Society. Nos. 14 — 17. 8vo. 
ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN. Nos. 138—143, and Nos. 
145 — 156. 4to. Altona. 
BAILY (F.) Appendix to Astronomical Tables and Formulae. 8vo. 
Lond. 1829. 
Further Remarks on the Present Defective State of the 
Nautical Almanac, with an Account of the New Astronomical 
Ephemeris published at Berlin. 8vo. Lond. 1829. 
BECHE (H. T. De la). A Tabular and Proportional View of the 
Superior, Supcrmedial, and Medial Rocks ; (Tertiary and Secon- 
dary Rocks.) Chart. Second Edition, considerably enlarged, 
1828. 
BESSEL (W. F.) Untersuchungen iiber die Lange des Einfachen 
Secundenpendels. Mit zrvei Kupfertafeln. 4to. Berlin 1826. 
AtronOmische Beobachtungen auf der Koniglichen 
Universitats-Sternwarte in Konigsberg. 12 Abtheil. (vom 1 Januar 
bis 31 Dec. 1826.) Fob Konigsb. 1827. 
B1JDRAGEN tot de Natuurkundige Wetenscliappen, verzameld door 
H. C. Van Hall, W. Vrolik en G. J. Mulder. (1826, 4 Parts. 
1827, 4 Parts. 1828, 2 Parts.) 8vo. Amsterdam 1828. 
BLACKBURN (J.) Description of the Parabolic Sounding Board in 
Attercliffe Church. 8vo. Lond. 1829. 
BLAND (Rev. Dr.) The Elements of Hydrostatics : with their Ap- 
plication to the Solution of Problems. (Second Edition.) 8vo. Cambr. 
1827. 
BOOTH (W. B.) Report on the Instruments employed in, and on 
the Plan of a Journal of, Meteorological Observations kept in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick. 4to. Lond. 1827. 
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1826. 4to. Lond. 1827. 
during the Year 1827. 4to. Lond. 1829. 
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Donors. 
The Society of Arts. 
The Royal Asiatic Society. 
The Astronomical Society 
of London. 
Prof. Schumacher, F.R.S. 
Francis Baily, Esq. F.R.S. 
H. T. De la Beche, Esq. 
F.R.S. 
Prof. Bessel, F.R.S. 
The University of Heidel- 
berg. 
The Rev. John Blackburn. 
Miles Bland, D.D. F.R.S. 
Mr. W. B. Booth. 
Dr. Bostock, F.R.S. 
