Nature, Volume 27

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Sir Norman Lockyer
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Page 192 - CHURCH, Dean of St. Paul's. THACKERAY. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. BURKE. By JOHN MORLEY. MILTON. By MARK PATTISON. HAWTHORNE. By HENRY JAMES, Jun.
Page 236 - KENNEDY, M. Inst. CE, Professor of Engineering and Mechanical Technology in University College, London. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo.
Page 120 - Oliphant (Mrs.). — THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE : Dante Giotto, Savonarola, and their City. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. With numerous Illustrations from drawings by Professor DELAMOTTE, and portrait of Savonarola, engraved by JEENS. Second Edition. Medium 8vo. Cloth extra. 2is. " Mrs. Oliphant has made a beautiful addition to the mass of literature already piled round the records of the Tuscan capital.
Page 75 - Wright (Lewis). — LIGHT ; A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL OPTICS, CHIEFLY WITH THE LANTERN. By LEWIS WRIGHT. With nearly 200 Engravings and Coloured Plates. Crown 8vo. Js. 6d. ASTRONOMY. Airy. — POPULAR ASTRONOMY. With Illustrations by Sir GB AIRY, KCB, formerly Astronomer'Royal.
Page 24 - PROCESSES, AND COLLATERAL INFORMATION IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PROFESSIONS, AND TRADES, INCLUDING MEDICINE, PHARMACY, AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY ; designed as a General Book of Reference for the Manufacturer, Tradesman, Amateur, and Heads of Families.
Page 247 - It will be in the recollection of some of our readers that the object of the Association was extended at the last annual meeting, so as to include the effecting of improvements in the teaching of elementary mathematics and mathematical physics. This extension has met with great approval, and the novelty of this year's meeting will be the reading of three papers : ( I ) " The Teaching of Elementary Mechanics," by WH Besant, FRS (2) " The Basis of Statics,
Page 251 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.
Page 224 - Our readers possibly may smile at our ignorance ; but we care not, so that the sincerity and truth of our statement be not suspected. The Tree of the Ten Thousand Images seemed to us of great age. Its trunk, which three men could scarcely embrace with outstretched arms, is not more than eight feet high; the branches, instead of shooting up, spread out in the shape of a plume of feathers, and are extremely bushy; few of them are dead. The leaves are always green, and the wood, which is of a reddish...
Page 252 - Many of you will begin to think that you are listening to the play of Hamlet with the part of the Prince of Denmark omitted, for so far I have said nothing whatever about technical education.

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