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Page 1123 - The Treasury of Botany, or Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom ; with which is incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms.
Page 1188 - The ORIGIN of CIVILISATION and the PRIMITIVE CONDITION of MAN ; Mental and Social Condition of Savages.
Page 1359 - FREDERICK M°CoY, FGS One vol., Royal 410. Plates, /i. is. A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN FOSSILS contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Portrait of PROFESSOR SEDGWICK.
Page 1053 - Yachting in the Arctic Seas; or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya. By JAMES LAMONT, FRGS With numerous full-page Illustrations by Dr. LIVESAY.
Page 1184 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 21s. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening: comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Page 1205 - L'Histoire Naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la Conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre ; ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode latine et françoise de les diviser : augmenté de la Zoomorphose, ou représentation des animaux à coquilles, avec leurs explications.
Page 1205 - M. le ch" de Gama Machado. — Paris, impr. de A. Moéssard et Joussel (sd). In-8", i p. [Sp. 11599 Théorie des ressemblances, ou Essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux d'après les analogies de formes, de robes et de couleurs, par le ch
Page 1162 - MOUNT VESUVIUS: A DESCRIPTIVE, HISTORICAL, and GEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT of the VOLCANO, with a NOTICE of the RECENT ERUPTION, and an Appendix, containing Letters by PLINY the Younger, a Table of Dates of Eruptions, and a List of Vesuvian Minerals. With View, Map (printed in Colours), and Section.
Page 1122 - Theory and Practice of Horticulture ; or, an Attempt to explain the principal Operations of Gardening upon Physiological Grounds: Being the Second Edition of the Theory of Horticulture, much enlarged ; with 98 Woodcuts.
Page 1391 - MUSTERS' (CAPT.) Patagonians; a Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro.