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_LIFE OF SIR RICHARD OWEN_. By Rev. RICHARD OWEN. With an Introduction by T. H. HUXLEY. 2 vols. 12mo. Cloth, $7.50.
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_DEAN BUCKLAND_. The Life and Correspondence of WILLIAM BUCKLAND, D. D., F. R. S., sometime Dean of Westminster, twice President of the Theological Society, and first President of the British a.s.sociation. By his Daughter, Mrs. GORDON. With Portraits and Ill.u.s.trations. 8vo.
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_THE ICE AGE IN NORTH AMERICA, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man_. By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, D. D., LL. D., F. G. S. A., Professor in Oberlin Theological Seminary; a.s.sistant on the United States Geological Survey. With an appendix on "The Probable Cause of Glaciation," by WARREN UPHAM, F. G. S. A., a.s.sistant on the Geological Surveys of New Hampshire, Minnesota, and the United States. New and enlarged edition.
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"The author has seen with his own eyes the most important phenomena of the Ice age on this continent from Maine to Alaska. In the work itself, elementary description is combined with a broad, scientific, and philosophic method, without abandoning for a moment the purely scientific character. Professor Wright has contrived to give the whole a philosophical direction which lends interest and inspiration to it, and which in the chapters on Man and the Glacial Period rises to something like dramatic intensity."--_The Independent_.
"... To the great advance that has been made in late years in the accuracy and cheapness of processes of photographic reproduction is due a further signal advantage that Dr. Wright"s work possesses over his predecessors". He has thus been able to ill.u.s.trate most of the natural phenomena to which he refers by views taken in the field, many of which have been generously loaned by the United States Geological Survey, in some cases from unpublished material; and he has admirably supplemented them by numerous maps and diagrams."--_The Nation_.
_MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD_. By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, D. D., LL. D., author of "The Ice Age in North America," "Logic of Christian Evidences," etc. International Scientific Series. With numerous Ill.u.s.trations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
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_OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS: The Plurality of Worlds, Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches_. By RICHARD ANTHONY PROCTOR. With Ill.u.s.trations, some colored. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
CONTENTS.--Introduction.--What the Earth teaches us.--What we learn from the Sun.--The Inferior Planets.--Mars, the Miniature of our Earth.--Jupiter, the Giant of the Solar System.--Saturn, the Ringed World.--Ura.n.u.s and Neptune, the Arctic Planets.--The Moon and other Satellites.--Meteors and Comets: their Office in the Solar System.--Other Suns than Ours.--Of Minor stars, and of the Distribution of Stars in s.p.a.ce.--The Nebulae: are they External Galaxies?--Supervision and Control.
_OUR PLACE AMONG INFINITIES_. A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in s.p.a.ce and Time with the Infinities around us. To which are added Essays on the Jewish Sabbath and Astrology. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
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[Ill.u.s.tration: JOHN BACH McMASTER.]
_HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES_, from the Revolution to the Civil War. By JOHN BACH McMASTER. To be completed in six volumes. Vols.
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"Mr. McMaster at once shows his grasp of the various themes and his special capacity as a historian of the people. His aim is high, but he hits the mark."--_New York Journal of Commerce_.
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