A catalogue of modern works on science and technology. 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th-14th, 16th-19th, 22nd-25th, 35th, 39th, ed

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Page 66 - SOLID GEOMETRY AND CONIC SECTIONS. With Appendices on Transversals and Harmonic Division. For the Use of Schools. By JM WILSON, MA New Edition.
Page 49 - A New Star Atlas, for the Library, the School, and the Observatory, in 12 Circular Maps (with 2 Index Plates). By RA PROCTOR, BA Crown 8vo.
Page 57 - Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, 3100 pp., and nearly 8000 engravings, in super-royal 8vo, in 8 divisions, 5/.
Page 7 - Practical Rules for the Proportions of Modern Engines and Boilers for Land and Marine Purposes. By NP BURGH, Engineer.
Page 32 - JACKSON — GEOMETRICAL CONIC SECTIONS. An Elementary Treatise in which the Conic Sections are defined as the Plane Sections of a Cone, and treated by the Method of Projection. By J. STUART JACKSON, MA, late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Page 61 - RESEARCHES IN THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS, principally on the Theory of Discontinuous Solutions: an Essay to which the Adams' Prize was awarded in the University of Cambridge in 1871.
Page 64 - WATSON.— The Theory and Practice of the Art of Weaving by Hand and Power : With Calculations and Tables for the use of those connected with the Trade. By JOHN WATSON, Manufacturer and Practical Machine Maker, illustrated by large Drawings of the best Power Looms.
Page 43 - A Popular History of the British Ferns and the allied Plants, comprising the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails.
Page 64 - How to keep the Clock right by Observations of the Fixed Stars with a small fixed Telescope. Together with Tables of Stars arranged to show, by the use of a little arithmetic, the mean solar time of their apparent transits to the end of the century.
Page 50 - Translated by the late BB Woodward, and Edited by Henry Woodward. With 234 Maps and Illustrations and 23 Page Maps printed in Colors.

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