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SCIENCE.

SCIENCE PRIMERS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

Under the joint Editorship of Professors HUXLEY, ROSCOE, and BALFOUR STEWART.

"These Primers are extremely simple and attractive, and thoroughly answer their purpose of just leading the young beginner up to the threshold of the long avenues in the Palace of Nature which these titles suggest." -GUARDIAN.

"They are wonderfully clear and lucid in their instruction, simple in style, and admirable in plan. '-EDUCATIONAL TIMES,

CHEMISTRY

By H. E. ROSCOE, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. With numerous Illustrations. 18mo. IS. New Edition. With Questions.

"A very model of perspicacity and accuracy."-CHEMIST AND DRUG

GIST.

PHYSICS-By BALFOUR STEWART, F.R.S., Professor of Natural
Philosophy in Owens College, Manchester. With numerous
Illustrations. 18mo. IS. New Edition. With Questions.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY-BY ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S.,
Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Edin-
burgh. With numerous Illustrations.
New Edition, with

Questions. 18mo. IS.

"Everyone of his lessons is marked by simplicity, clearness, and correctness."-ATHENEUM.

GEOLOGY-By Professor GEIKIE, F.R.S.

Illustrations. New Edition. 18mo. cloth.

With numerous

IS.

"It is hardly possible for the dullest child to misunderstand the meaning of a classification of stones after Professor Geikie's explanation.". "-SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE.

PHYSIOLOGY-BY MICHAEL FOSTER, M.D., F.R.S. With numerous Illustrations. New Edition. 18mo. IS.

"The book seems to us to leave nothing to be desired as an elementary text-book."-ACADEMY.

SCIENCE PRIMERS Continued

ASTRONOMY - By J. NORMAN LOCKYER, F.R.S. With New Edition. 18mo. Is.

numerous Illustrations.

"This is altogether one of the most likely attempts we have ever seen to bring astronomy down to the capacity of the young child."-SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE.

BOTANY-By Sir J. D.

HOOKER, K.C.S.I., C B., President of the Royal Society. With numerous Illustrations. New Edition. 18mo. IS.

"To teachers the Primer will be of inestimable value, and not only because of the simplicity of the language and the clearness with which the subject matter is treated, but also on account of its coming from the highest authority, and so furnishing positive information as to the most suitable mehods of teaching the science of botany." LOGIC-By Professor STANLEY JEVONS, F.R.S. New Edition. 18mo. IS.

"-NATURE.

"It appears to us admirably adapted to serve both as an introduction to scientific reasoning, and as a guide to sound judgment and reasoning in the ordinary affairs of life."-ACADEMY,

POLITICAL ECONOMY-By Professor STANLEY JEVONS, F.R.S. 18mo. IS.

"Unquestionably in every respect an admirable primer."-SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE.

In preparation :—

INTRODUCTORY. By Professor HUXLEY. &c. &c.

ELEMENTARY CLASS-BOOKS.

ASTRONOMY, by the Astronomer Royal.

POPULAR ASTRONOMY. With Illustrations. By Sir G. B. AIRY, K.C.B., Astronomer Royal. New Edition. 18mo. 4s. 6d.

ASTRONOMY.

ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN ASTRONOMY. With
Coloured Diagram of the Spectra of the Sun, Stars, and
Nebula, and numerous Illustrations. By J. NORMAN LOCKYER,
F.R.S. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

"Full, clear, sound, and worthy of attention, not only as a popular

exposition, but as a scientific Index.'"-ATHENæum.

ELEMENTARY CLASS-BOOKS Continued

QUESTIONS ON LOCKYER'S ELEMENTARY LES-
SONS IN ASTRONOMY. For the Use of Schools. By
JOHN FORBES-Robertson. 18mo. cloth limp. Is. 6d.

PHYSIOLOGY.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY. With numerous Illustrations. By T. H. HUXLEY, F.R.S., Professor of Natural History in the Royal School of Mines. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

"Pure gold throughout."-GUARDIAN.

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Unquestionably the clearest and most complete elementary treatise on this subject that we possess in any language. '-WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

QUESTIONS ON HUXLEY'S PHYSIOLOGY FOR
SCHOOLS. By T. ALCOCK, M.D. 18mo. Is. 6d.

BOTANY.

By D.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY BOTANY.
OLIVER, F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany in University
College, London. With nearly Two Hundred Illustrations
New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

CHEMISTRY.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY, IN-
ORGANIC AND ORGANIC. By HENRY E. ROSCOE,
F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester.
With numerous Illustrations and Chromo-Litho of the Solar
Spectrum, and of the Alkalies and Alkaline Earths. New
Edition. Fcap. 8vo.
4s. 6d.

"As a standard general text-book it deserves to take a leading place.' SPECTATOR.

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"We unhesitatingly pronounce it the best of all our elementary treatises on Chemistry."-MEDICAL TIMES.

A SERIES OF CHEMICAL PROBLEMS, prepared with Special Reference to the above, by T. E. Thorpe, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds. Adapted for the preparation of Students for the Government, Science, and Society of Arts Examinations. With a Preface by Professor Roscoe. Fifth Edition, with, Key, 18mo. 25.

ELEMENTARY CLASS-BOOKS Continued

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR BEGINNERS. By
MILLICENT G. FAWCETT. New Edition. 18mo. 2s. 6d.

"Clear, compact, and comprehensive."-DAILY NEWS.

"The relations of capital and labour have never been more simply or more clearly expounded."-CONTEMPORARY REVIEW.

LOGIC.

ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN LOGIC; Deductive and
Inductive, with copious Questions and Examples, and a
Vocabulary of Logical Terms. By W. STANLEY JEVONS, M.A.,
Professor of Logic in University College, London. New
Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d.

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Nothing can be better for a school-book."-GUARDIAN.

“A manual alike simple, interesting, and scientific.”—ATHENÆUM.

PHYSICS.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSICS. By BALFOUR
STEWART, F.R.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in Owens
College, Manchester. With numerous Illustrations and Chromo
litho of the Spectra of the Sun, Stars, and Nebula. New
Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

"The beau-ideal of a scientific text-book, clear, accurate, and thorough." EDUCATIONAL TIMES.

PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY,

THE OWENS COLLEGE JUNIOR COURSE OF
PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY. BY FRANCIS JONES, Chemical
Master in the Grammar School, Manchester. With Preface by
Professor RosCOE, and Illustrations. New Edition. 18mo

2s. 6d.

ANATOMY.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY ANATOMY. By ST.
GEORGE MIVART, F.R.S., Lecturer in Comparative Anatomy
at St. Mary's Hospital. With upwards of 400 Illustrations.
Fcap. 8vo. 6s. 6d.

"It may be questioned whether any other work on anatomy contains in like compass so proportionately great a mass of information."-LANCET. "The work is excellent, and should be in the hands of every student of human anatomy."-MEDICAL TIMES.

ELEMENTARY CLASS-BOOKS Continued

MECHANICS,

AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE. By A. B. W.
KENNEDY, C.E., Professor of Applied Mechanics in University
College, London. With Illustrations. [In preparation.

STEAM.

AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE. By JOHN PERRY,
Professor of Engineering, Imperial College of Engineering,
Yedo. With numerous Woodcuts and Numerical Examples
and Exercises. 18mo. 4s. 6d.

"The young engineer and those seeking for a comprehensive knowledge of the use, power, and economy of steam, could not have a more useful work, as it is very intelligible, well arranged, and practical throughout."IRONMONGER.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN PHYSICAL GEO-
GRAPHY. By A. GEIKIE, F.R.S., Murchison Professor
of Geology, &c., Edinburgh. With numerous Illustrations.
Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

QUESTIONS ON THE SAME.

GEOGRAPHY.

Is. 6a.

CLASS-BOOK OF GEOGRAPHY. By C. B. Clarke, M.A.,
F.R.S. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. бa.

SOUND-AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE. By W. H. STONE, M.D., F.R.S. With Illustrations. 18mo.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

[In the Press.

By

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY FOR BEGINNERS.

I. TODHUNTER, M.A., F.R.S. Part I. The Properties of
Solid and Fluid Bodies. 18mo. 3s. 6d.

Part II. Sound, Light, and Heat.

18mo. 3s. 6d.

Others in Preparation.

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