Nature, Volume 16

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Sir Norman Lockyer
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Page 186 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 220 - TODHUNTER— Works by I. ToDHUNTER, MA, FRS, of St. John's College, Cambridge. ' Mr. Todhunter is chiefly known to students of Mathematics as the author of a series of admirable mathematical text-books, which possess the rare qualities of being clear in style and absolutely free from mistakes, typographical or other."— SATURDAY REVIEW.
Page 3 - GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY RESPECTING THE WATER-BEARING STRATA OF THE COUNTRY AROUND LONDON, with reference especially to the Water Supply of the Metropolis, and including some Remarks on Springs. By JOSEPH PRESTWICH, FGS, &o. 8vo, with a Map and Woodcuts, 8».
Page 200 - Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the...
Page 178 - Brescia, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and died 1510, at Bergamo, at a very advanced age.
Page lxiv - The History, Products, and Processes of the Alkali Trade, including the most recent Improvements. By CHARLES T. KINGZETT, FCS With 32 Woodcuts.
Page xlv - KITCHENER— A GEOMETRICAL NOTE-BOOK, containing Easy Problems in Geometrical Drawing preparatory to the Study of Geometry. For the use of Schools.
Page 193 - Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Page xlv - Prelector of St. John's College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS. For the Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools.
Page 249 - Now though this pretty contrivance possibly may not yet answer the expectation of inquisitive experiment ; yet 'tis no despicable item, that by some other such way of magnetick efficiency, it may hereafter with success be attempted, when Magical History shall be enlarged by riper inspections : and 'tis not unlikely, but that present discoveries might be improved to the performance.

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