NEW LT TOT TAT AT IT BY JOSIAH PARSONS COOKE, ERVING PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOG NEW YORK: 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1882. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. DEAR SIR: From the early lectures of the Lowell stitute I derived, when a boy, my taste for the sci which became the occupation of my after-life, an has since often been my privilege to illustrate be the intelligent audiences-which, for more than th winters, the Institute has gathered under your de tion-the results of the studies that I there beg Allow me, then, to dedicate to you this volume, as expression of my indebtedness to the foundation have so long and so ably administered. With great respect, Your obedient servant,. JOSIAH PARSONS COOK |