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IN THE

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES.

NOW READY.

XC. THE NEW PHYSICS AND ITS EVOLUTION. By LUCIEN

POINCARE.

XCI. THE EVOLUTION OF FORCES.

LE BON.

By Dr. GUSTAVE

XCII. THE RADIO-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES: Their Properties and Behaviours. By WALTER MAKOWER (Assistant Lecturer in Physics at the Victoria University of Manchester). XCIII. MUSIC: Its Laws and Evolution. By JULES COMBARIEU, Lecturer at the Collège de France.

XCIV. THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ANIMAL WORLD. By M. CHARLES DEPÉRET, Corresponding Member of the Institute de France and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Université de Lyon.

XCV. HUMAN SPEECH: Its Physical Basis. By N. C. MACNAMARA, F.R.C.S.

XCVI. THE PERIODIC LAW. By A. E. GARRETT, B.Sc. (By Research.) Illustrated by tables and diagrams.

The contents of this new important volume in the series are: Introductory Chapter dealing with methods of finding atomic weights; Historical Survey, including Prout's work, Dobereiner's Triads, Pettenkofer, Gladstone, Cooke and Dumas, Newland's Octaves, The Telluric Helix of de Chancourtois, The Periodic Law of Mendeléeff, Lothar Meyer's Atomic Volume Curve.

Carnelley's work on the melting and boiling points of the elements and their halogen compounds, Sir Wm. Crooke's Spiral, Johnstone Stoney's Logarithmic Spiral.

The properties of the elements as periodic functions of their atomic weights, illustrated with numerous diagrams

The various attempts to obtain a formula for the calculation of the atomic weights of the elements.

The atom considered from the standpoint of the periodic law.

The places of the Argon group, and of the Radio-active substances in the periodic table.

XV. LIGHT AND PHOTOGRAPHY. By Dr. H. VOGEL and A. E. GARRETT. Revised and brought up-to-date by A. E. GARRETT. Illustrated.

Will contain among other things chapters on the following:-
:-

I.-Historical Survey including Work of Wedgewood and Davy, The Camera Obscura, The Daguerreotype, Talbot's Lichtpaus Paper, The work of Nièpce de St. Victor, Archer's negative process, the wet plate, &c.

II. The chemical action of light including Pseudo-photographic impressions.

III.-Lenses-Single lens, Portrait lens, Telephoto lens, &c.
IV-Plates and Films.

V.-Photographic papers, and the preparation of photographic prints. Photography with chromium compounds.

VI.-Camera appliances.

VII.--Photographic Art: (a) Perspective; (b) Composition of pictures; (c) Scientific and Technical.

VIII.- Book illustration: (a) Collotype; (b) Photo-lithography; (c) Half tone process; (d) The three colour process.

IX. Astronomical photography.

X.--- Röntgen Kay photography.

XI.-Micro-photography.

XII.-Colour photography.

XIII.-Photo-telegraphy.

XIV. The kinematograph.

NEW VOLUMES IN PREPARATION.

EVOLUTION OF PURPOSIVE LIVING MATTER. By N. C. MACNAMARA, F.R.C.S.

CHRYSTALS. By Dr. A. E. H. TUTTON.

PRACTICAL ARCHEOLOGY. By Prof. GARSTANG.

A HISTORY OF BIRDS. By H. O. FORBES, LL.D., F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., Reader in Ethnography in the University of Liverpool.

THE MODERN SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE. By HENRY CANTLEY

WYLD.

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1. FORMS of WATER: in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers. By J. TYNDALL, LL.D., F.R.S. With 25 Illustrations. Thirteenth Edition.

II. PHYSICS and POLITICS; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection' and 'Inheritance' to Political Society. By WALTER BAGEHOT. Thirteenth Edition.

III. FOODS. By EDWARD SMITH, M.D., LL.B., F.R.S. With 156

Illustrations. Tenth Edition.

IV. MIND and BODY: the Theories of their Relation. ALEXANDER BAIN, LL D. With Four Illustrations. Tenth Edition.

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V. The STUDY of SOCIOLOGY. By HERBERT SPENCER Twenty-second Edition.

VI. The CONSERVATION of ENERGY. BY BALFOur Stewart, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. With 14 Illustrations. Ninth Edition.

VII. ANIMAL LOCOMOTION; or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying. By J. B. PETTIGREW, M.D., F.R.S., &c. With 130 Illustrations. Fourth Edition.

VIII. RESPONSIBILITY in MENTAL DISEASE. By HENRY MAUDSLEY, M.D. Fifth Edition.

IX. The NEW CHEMISTRY. By Professor J. P. COOKE, of the Harvard University. With 31 Illustrations. Eleventh Edition.

X. The SCIENCE of LAW. By Professor SHELDON AMOS.

Ninth Edition.

XI. ANIMAL MECHANISM: a Treatise on Terrestrial and Aërial Locomotion. By Professor E. J. MAREY. With 117 Illustrations. Fourth Edition.

XII. The DOCTRINE of DESCENT and DARWINISM. By Professor OSCAR SCHMIDT (Strasburg University). With 26 Illustrations. Eighth Edition.

XIII. The HISTORY of the CONFLICT between RELIGION and SCIENCE. By J. W. DRAPER, M.D., LL.D. Twenty-fourth Edition.

XIV. FUNGI: their Nature, Influences, Uses, &c. By M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D. Edited by the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S. With Illustrations. Sixth Edition.

XV. The CHEMISTRY of LIGHT and

PHOTOGRAPHY.

By Dr. HERMANN VOGEL and A. E. GARRETT. Revised and brought up. to-date by A. E. GARRETT. Illustrated. (For full particulars see p. 3.)

XVI. The LIFE and GROWTH of LANGUAGE. By WILLIAM
DWIGHT WHITNEY. Seventh Edition.

XVII. MONEY and the MECHANISM of EXCHANGE. By
W. STANLEY JEVONS, M.A., F.R.S. Twenty-second Edition.

XVIII. The NATURE of LIGHT, with a General Account of
PHYSICAL OPTICS. By Dr. EUGENE LOMMEL. With 188 Illus-
trations and a Table of Spectra in Chromo-lithography. Seventh Edition.

XIX. ANIMAL PARASITES and MESSMATES. By Monsieur
VAN BENEDEN. With 83 Illustrations. Fourth Edition.

XX. FERMENTATION. By Professor SCHÜTZENBERGER. With
Fifth Edition.

28 Illustrations.

XXI. The FIVE SENSES of MAN. By Professor Bernstein.

With 91 Illustrations. Seventh Edition.

XXII. The THEORY of SOUND in its RELATION to MUSIC.
By Professor PIETRO BLASERNA. With numerous Illustrations. Seventh
Edition.

XXIII. STUDIES in SPECTRUM ANALYSIS. By J. NORMAN
LOCKYER, F.R.S. With Six Photographic Illustrations of Spectra, and
numerous Engravings on Wood. Sixth Edition. 6s. 6d.

XXIV. A HISTORY of the GROWTH of the STEAM ENGINE.
By Professor R. H. THURSTON. With numerous Illustrations.
Edition.

Fifth

XXV. EDUCATION as a SCIENCE. BY ALEXANDER BAIN, LL.D.
Tenth Edition.

XXVI. The HUMAN SPECIES. By Professor A. DE QUATREFAGES,

Membre de l'Institut. Sixth Edition.

XXVII. MODERN CHROMATICS.

With Application to Art and
Industry. By OGDEN N. ROOD. Fourth Edition. With 130 original
Illustrations.

XXVIII. The CRAYFISH: an Introduction to the Study of Zoology.
By T. H. HUXLEY, F.R.S, Seventh Edition. With 82 Illustrations.
XXIX. The BRAIN as an ORGAN of MIND. By H. CHARLTON
BASTIAN, M.D. Fifth Edition. With 184 Illustrations.

XXX. The ATOMIC THEORY.

By Professor A. WURTZ. Trans-

lated by E. CLEMINSHAW, F.C.S. Seventh Edition.

XXXI. The NATURAL CONDITIONS of EXISTENCE as
they affect Animal Life. By KARL SEMPER. Fifth Edition.
With 2 Maps and 106 Woodcuts.

XXXII. GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY of MUSCLES and NERVES.
By Prof. J. ROSENTHAL. Fourth Edition. With 75 Illustrations.

XXXIII. SIGHT: an Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and
Binocular Vision. By JOSEPH LE CONTE, LL.D.

132 Illustrations.

Third Edition. With

XXXIV. ILLUSIONS: a Psychological Study. By JAMES SULLY.

Fourth Edition.

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