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Coal ITS HISTORY AND ITS USES. By Professors GREEN, MIALL, THORPE, RÜCKER, and MARSHALL, of the Yorkshire College, Leeds. With Illustrations. 8vo.

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It furnishes a very comprehensive treatise on the whole subject of Coal from the geological, chemical, mechanical, and industrial points of view, concluding with a chapter on the important topic known as the Coal Question.'"- Daily News.

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Cooke (Josiah P., Jun.).-FIRST PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY. By JOSIAH P. COOKE, Jun., Ervine Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in Harvard College. Third Edition, revised and corrected. Crown 8vo.

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Cooke (M. C.).-HANDBOOK OF BRITISH FUNGI, with full descriptions of all the Species, and Illustrations of the Genera. By M. C. COOKE, M.A. Two vols. crown 8vo. 245. "Will maintain its place as the standard English book, on the subject of which it treats, for many years to come."-Standard.

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Fleischer.-A SYSTEM OF VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS.
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THE APPLICATIONS OF PHYSICAL FORCES.
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GUILLEMIN. Translated from the French by Mrs. LOCKYER, and
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Henslow.-THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION OF LIVING THINGS, and Application of the Principles of Evolution to Religion considered as Illustrative of the Wisdom and Beneficence of the Almighty. By the Rev. GEORGE HENSLOW, M.A., F.L.S. Crown 8vo. 6s.

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Hooker. Works by Sir J. D. HOOKER, K.C.S.I., C.B., F.R.S., M.D., D.Č.L.:

THE STUDENT'S FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. Second Edition, revised and improved. Globe Svo.

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Certainly the fullest and most accurate manual of the kind that has yet appeared. Dr. Hooker has shown his characteristic industry

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Huxley and Martin.-A COURSE OF PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY BIOLOGY. By T. H. HUXLEY, LL.D., Sec. R. S., assisted by H. N. MARTIN, B.A., M.B., D.Sc., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Crown 8vo. 6s.

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Contents:-1. Administrative Nihilism. 2. The School Boards:
what they can do, and what they may do. 3. On Medical Edu-
cation.
5. On the Formation of Coal. 6. On Coral
and Coral Reefs. 7. On the Methods and Results of Ethnology.
8. On some Fixed Points in British Ethnology. 9. Palæontology

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and the Doctrine of Evolution. 10. Biogenesis and Abiogenesis. II. Mr. Darwin's Critics. 12. The Genealogy of Animals. 13. Bishop Berkeley on the Metaphysics of Sensation.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY. With numerous Illustrations. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

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