This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... LIST OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, ETC., OX MATTERS PERTAINING TO SCIENCE, PUBLISHED IX THE EXITED STATES DURING THE YEAR 1857. Agassiz, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States. Vols. I. aud II. Boston: Little & Brown. Alchemy and the Alchemists. 12mo. Crosby and Nichols, Boston. American Almanac for 1858. Crosby & Nichols, Boston. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Proceedings for 1856,10th meeting, pp. 260. American Encyclopedia. Vol. First. Ripley and Dana, Editors. Appleton & Co., N. Y. Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Vol. II, Part 1. 138 pp. 4to, with numerous plates. Cambridge, 1857. Bell, John, M. D. The Mineral and Thermal Springs of the United States and Canada. 12mo. Parry & McMillan, Philadelphia. Bache, Prof. A. D. Coast Survey Report for 1856. Pub. Doc. Blake W. P. Observations on the Physical Geography and Geology of the Coast of California from Bodega Bay to San Diego. Blodget, Lorin. Climatology of the United Statss, and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent. Embracing a full comparison of these, with the Climatology of the Temperate Latitudes of Europe and Asia; with Isothermal and Rain Charts. 8vo. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. Branston, S. F. Handbook of Practical Receipts. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia. Brodie, Sir Benjamin. Mind and Matter; or, a Series of Essays intended to Illustrate the Mutual Relations of the Physical Organization and the Mental Faculties, with additional Notes by an American Editor. Putnam, N. Y. Burgess, N. G. The Ambrotype Manual, a treatise on the art of taking positive photographs on glass. Fairchild & Co., N. Y. Campbell. A claim of priority in the discovery and naming of the excito-sccretory system of...