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## Chapter 7 Summary
Twenty-five dollars worth of information in the pocket.
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## Recent Issues.
Collodio-Etching.
A Guide to Collodio-Etching. By Rev. Benjamin Hartley. Illustrated by the "Author. 12mo., Cloth, Neat, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
This volume gives complete and minute instructions for one of the most delightful of Amateur Arts. It is fully illustrated by wood-euts of all the apparatus used (which is very simple and easily made), and also by actual photo prints of the etchings themselves.
## Scientific Experiments.
Easy Experiments in Chemistry and Natural Philosophy. For Educational Institutions of all Grades, and for Private Students. By G. Dallas Lind, Author of "Methods of Teaching in Country Schools," and "Normal Outlines of the Common School Branches." Paper, - - - - - - - 40 cents. This book, besides being a valuable guide for the teacher and student, will afford scientific amusment sufficient to brighten the evenings of a whole winter.
## The Builder's Guide and Estimator's Price Book.
Being a Compilation of Current Prices of Lunber, Hardware, Glass, Plunbers' Supplies, Paints, Slates, Stones, Limes, Cements, Bricks, Tin, and other Building Materials; also, Prices of Labor, and Cost of Performing the Soverall Kinds of Work Required in Building. Together with Prices of Doors, Frames, Sushes, Stairs, Mouldings, Newels, and other Machine Work. To which is appended a large number of Building Rules, Duta, Tables, and Useful Memorana, with a Glossary of Architectural and Building Terms. By Fred, T. Hodgson, Editor of "The Builder and Wood-Worker," Author of "The Steel Square and Its Uses," etc., etc., 12mo., Cloth, - - - - - - $2,00,
**Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes.**
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Cloth, - - - - - - - $3.00
This edition has been made for us by the English publishers, and is in every respect the same as the English edition. The work itself is too well known to require comamendation at our hands. No one that owns even the commonest kind of a telescope can afford to do without it
"Many things, deemed invisible to secondary instruments, are plain enough to one who'knows how to see them.'"--Smith.
" When an object is once discerned by a superior powcr, an inferior one will suffice to see it afterwards."--Sm. W. Herschel.
**Celestial History of the Six Days of Creation.**
By John Phin, Editor of the "American Journal of Mieroscopy " and the "Young Scientist."
12 mo., Cloth, - - - - - 75 cents.
In this volume an attempt is made to trace the evolution of our globe from the primeval state of nebulous mist, " without form and void," and existing in " darkness," or with an entire absence of the manifestations of the physical forces, to the condition in which it was tilted to become the habitation of man. While the statements and conclusions are rigidly scientific, it gives some exceedingly novel views of a rather hackneyed subject.
**Pnds and Ditches.**
A Work on Pond Life and Kindred Objects. By M. C. Cooke, M.A., LL.D. Cloth, 12mo., - - 75 cents.
This is a most interesting volume by a well-known author and microscopist. It is very freely illustrated with engravings of the objects usually found in pond water.
**Microscopical Examination of Drinking Water.**
A Guide to the Mieroscopical Examination of Drinking Water. By J. D. McDonald.
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## 1.1 The Amateur's Hand-Book of Practical Information.
For the Workshop and the Laboratory. Second Edition.
Greatly Enlarged. Neutly Bound, - 15 cents.
This is a handy little book, containing just the information needed by Amateurs in the Workshop and Laboratory. Directions for making Alloys, Fusible Metals, Cements, Glues, etc.; and for Soldering, Brazing, Laequering, Bronzing, Staining and Polishing Wood, Tempering Tools, Cutting and Working Glass, Varnishing, Silvering, Gilding, Preparing Skins, etc., etc.
The New Edition contains extended directions for preparing Poushaling Powders, Freezing Mixtures, Colored Lights for tableaux, solutions for rendering ladies' dresses incombustible, etc. There has also been added a very large number of new and valuable'e receipts.
## 1.2 Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements.
Embracing all those which are Most Important in Dynamics, Hydraulies, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Steam Engines, Mill and Other Gearing, Presses, Horology and Miseellaneous Machinery; and including Many Movements never before published, and several of which have only recently come into use. By Henry T. Brown, editor of the "American Artisan." Eleventh Edition. SS1.00
This work is a perfect Cyclopedia of Mechanical Inventions, which are here reduced to first principles, and classified so as to be readily available. Every mechanic that hopes to be more than a rule-of-thumb worker ought to have a copy.
How to Put Up a Lightning Rod.
Plain Directions for the Construction and Erection of Lightning Rods. By John Phin, C.E., editor of the "Young Scientist," author of "Chemical History of the Six Days of the Creation," etc. Second Edition. Enlarged and Fully Illustrated. 12 mo., Cloth, Gilt Title, - - - - - 50 cents.
This is a simple and practical little work, intended to convey just such information as will enable every property owner to decide whether or not his buildings are thoroughly protected. It is not written in the interest of any patent or particular article of manufacture, and by following its directions, any ordinarily skifai mechanie can put up a rod that will afford perfect protection, and that will not infringe any patent. Every owner of a house or barn ought to procure a copy.
Lectures in a Workshop.
By T. P. Pemberton, formerly Associate Editor of the "Technologist;" Author of "The Student's Illustrated Guide to Practical Draughting." With an appendix containing the famous papers by Whitworth "On Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes; ""On an Uniform System of Serew Threads; ""Address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Glasgow;""On Standard Decimal Measures of Length." 12 mo., Cloth, Gilt, $1.00
We have here a sprightly fascinating book, full of valuable hints, interesting anecdotes and sharp sayings. It is not a compilation of dull sermons or dry mathematics, but a live, readable book. The papers by Whitworth, now first made accessible to the American reader, form the basis of our modern systems of accurate work.
Mechanical Draughting for Self-Taught Students.
The Student's Illustrated Guide to Practical Draughting. A series of Practical Instructions for Machinists, Mechanics, Apprentices, and Students at Engineering Establishments and Technical Institutes. By T. P. Pemberton, Draughtsman and Mechanical Engineer. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. Cloth Gilt, - - - - - - $1.00A New Book for Bee-Keepers.A Dictionary of Practical Apieulture, giving the correct meaning of nearly Five Hundred Terms, according to the usage of the best writers. Intended as a Guide to Uniformity of Expression amongst Bee-Keepers. With Numerous Illustrations, Notes, and Practical Hints. By John Phin, Author of "How to Use the Microscope," etc. Editor of the "Young Scientist." Price,Cloth, Gilt, 50 cts.This work gives not only the correct meaning of five hundred different words, specially used in bee-keeping, but an immense amount of valuable information under the different headings. The labor expended upon it has been very great, the definitions having been gathered from the mode in which the words are used by our best writers on bee-keeping, and from the Imperial, Richardson's, Skeat's, Webster's, Worcester's and other English Dictionaries. The technical information relating to matters connected with bee-keeping has been gathered from the Technical Dictionaries of Brande, Muspratt, Ure, Wagner, Watts, and others. Under the heads _Bee, Comb, Glucose, Honey, Race, Species, Sugar, Wax_ and others, it brings together a large number of important facts and figures which are now scattered through our bee-literature, and through costly scientific works, and are not easily found when wanted. Here they can be referred to at once under the proper head.
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**The Engineer's Slide Rule and Its Applications.**
**A Complete Investigation of the Principles upon which the Slide Rule is Constructed, together with the Method of its Application to all the Purposes of the Practical Mechanic. By William Tonkes.. - 25 cents.**
**Rhymes of Science : Wise and Otherwise.**
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**Instruction in the Art of Wood Engraving.**
A Manual of Instruction in the Art of Wood Engraving ; with a Description of the Necessary Tools and Apparatus, and Concise Directions for their Use ; Explanation of the Terms Used, and the Methods Employed for Producing the Various Classes of Wood Engravings. By S. E. Fuller. Fully Illustrated with Engravings by the author, separate sheets of engravings for transfer and practice being added. New Edition, Nearly Bound, - - - - - - 30 cents.**
**What to Do in Case of Accident.**
What to Do and How to Do It in Case of Accident. A Book for Everybody. 12 mo., Cloth, Gilt Title, 50 cents.**
This is one of the most useful books ever published. It tells exactly what to do in sense of accidents, such as Severe Cuts, Sprains, Dislocations, Broken Bones, Burns with Fire, Sealds, Burns with Corrosive Chemicals, Sunstroke, Suffocation by Foul Air, Hanging, Drowning, Frost-Bite, Painting, Stings, Bites, Starvation, Lightning, Polisons, Aeeldents from Machinery and from the Falling of Scaffolding, Gunshot Wounds, etc., etc. It ought to be in every house, for young and old are liable to accident, and the directions given in this book might be the means of saving many a valuable life.
How to See with the Microscope.
Being Useful Hints Connected with the Selection and Use of the Instrument; also Some Discussion of the Claims and Capacity of Modern High-Angled Objectives, as Compared with those of Medium Aperture. With Instructions as to the Selection and Use of American Object-Glasses of Wide Apertures. By J. Edwards Smith, M.D., Professor of Histology and Microscopy; Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society; Corresponding Member San Francisco, Dunkirk, and other Microscopical Societies, etc., etc. Second Edition. Hand-somely Illustrated, - - - - - $2.00
Prof. Smith is well known as the most expert manipulator in this country, as regards objectives of wide aperture, and in this volume he gives, in a clear and practical manner, all the directons necessary to attain the surprising results which he has achieved. No microscopist that uses anything better than French triplets can afford to be without it.
## 1.4.
A Year's Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusorla, Motifers, Water Bears and Polygon. By Henry J. Slack, F.G.S., F.R.M.S., etc. Second Edition. Seven Full Page Plates and Numerous Wood Engravings in the Text. 12mo., Cloth, Gilt, - - - $1.00
## 1.5.
The Fresh-Water Rhizopods of North America. By Joseph Leidy, M.D., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and of Natural History in Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. Contains 48 quarto plates of drawings of Magnified Rhizopods, beautifully colored. 1 vol., 4to., Cloth, - - - $5.00
## 1.6. Catalogue of Medical Journals
We have just issued a Complete List of all the Medical Journals published in the United States and Canada, with Addresses, Prices, Clubbing Rates, Editors' Names, etc. This list is corrected from time to time, so as to embody the latest information, and will be mailed free to any one who sends for it.
**Section Cutting.**
A Practical Guide to the Preparation and Mounting C: Sections for the Microscope ; Special Prominence being given to the Subject of Animal Sections By Sylvester Marsh. Reprinted from the London edition. With Illustrations. 12mo., Cloth, Gilt Title. - 75 cents.
This is undoubtedly the most thorough treatise extant upon section cutting 'n all its details. The American edition has been greatly enlarged by valuable explanatory notes, and also by extended directions, illustrated with engravings, for selecting and sharpening knives and razors.
A Book for Beginners with the Microscope.
Being an abridgment of " Practical Hints on the Selection and Use of the Microscope." By John Phil. Fully illustrated, and neatly and strongly bound in boards. 30 cts.
This book was prepared for the use of those who, having no knowledge of the use of the microscope, or, indeed, of any scientific apparatus, desire simple and practical instruction in the best methods of managing the instrument and preparing objects.
How to Use the Microscope.
" Practical Hints on the Selection and Use of the Microscope." Intended for Beginners. By John Phil, Editor of the " American Journal of Microscopy." Fourth Edition. Greatly enlarged, with over 80 engravings in the text, and 6 full-page engravings, printed on heavy tint paper. 12mo., cloth, gilt title, - $1.00
The Microscope.
By Andrew Ross. Fully Illustrated. 12mo., Cloth, Gilt Title. - - - - 75 cents. This is the celebrated article contributed by Andrew Ross to the "Penny Cyclopaedia," and quoted so frequently by writers on the Microscope. Carpenter and Hogg, in the last editions of their works on the Microscope, and Brooke, in his treatise on Natural Philosophy, all refer to this article as the best source for full and clear information in regard to the principles upon which the modern achromatic Microscope is constructed. It should be in the library of every person to whom the Microscope is more than a toy. It is written in simple language, free from abstruse technicalities.
The Microscopist's Annual for 1879.
Contains List of all the Microscopist Societies in the country, with names of officers, days of meeting, etc.; etc.; Alphabetical and Classified Lists of all the Manufacturers of Microsoopes and Objectives, Dissecting Apparatus, Microscopic Objects, Materials for Microscopists, in Europe and America, etc., etc.; Postal Rates, Rules and Regulations, prepared expressly for microscopists; Weights and Measures, with tables and rules for the conversion of different measures into each other; Custom Duties and Regulations in regard to Instruments and Books; Value of the Moneys of all Countries in U. S. Dollars; Value of the Lines on Nobert's Test Plates; Table of Moller's Probe Platte, with the number of lines to inch on the several diatoms, etc., etc.; Focal Value of the Objectives of those makers who Number their Objectives (Hartnack, Nachet, etc.); Focal Value of the Eye-pieces of different makers; Magnifying Power of Eye-pieces and Objectives, etc. The whole forming an indispensable companion for every working micro-scopist. Limp Cloth, Gilt - - - 25 cents.
_ax_: The " Annual" for 1880 is in a forward state of preparation, and will be uniform in size and price with that for 1879.
Microscope Objectives.
The Angular Aperture of Microscope Objectives. By Dr. George E. Blackham. 8vo., Cloth. Eighteen full page illustrations printed on extra fine paper. $1.25. Solid only by Subscription.
This is the elaborate paper on Angular Aperture, read by Dr. Blackham before the Microscopical Congress, held at Indianapolis.
Kutzing on Diatoms.--Nearly ready.
The Siliceous Shelled Bacillartie or Diatomacee; the History of their Discovery and Classification; their Distribution, Collection, and Life-History. By Friedrich Traugott Kutzing. Translated from the German by Prof. Hamilton L. Smith, of Geneva, N. Y. 12mo., Cloth, Gilt, - - - - 50 cents.
FOURTH EDITION. Gravity Enlarged, with over 80 illustrations in the Text and 6 full page Engravities, printed on Heavy Tim Paper. I Vol. 12003, 240 Agger. Nearly Bound in Cloth, Gille Title. Price $1.00.
How to use the Microscope.
A simple and practical book, intended for beginners.
By JOHN PHIN,
Editor of "The American Journal of Microscopy."
CONDENSED TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The Microscope.--What it Is; What it Does; Different Kinds of Microscopes; I principles of its Construct on; Names of the Different Parts.