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LIBRARY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

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THE OBJECTS, ADVANTAGES, and
PLEASURES of SCIENCE. Being. the Preli-
minary Treatise of the Library of Useful Knowledge.
London: Baldwin and Cradock.

In compliance with the wishes of many persons this
" Preliminary Treatise," which has excited general atten-
tion, has been allowed by the Society to be re-printed in
this elegant form ; but such permission will not be extended
to the other treatises, of •whieh the following have been
published to April 15.-1. Hydrostatics-2. Hydraulics
—3. Pneumatics-4 and 5. Heat-6, 7, and 8. Me-
clunics-9. Animal Mechanics-10 and 18. Account of
Bacon's Novum Organutn-11. Mechanics (Friction)-
-12 and 19. Optics-13. Optical Instruments-14.
Vegetable Physiology-15 and 22. Electricity-16. Ma-
thematical Geographt —l7. Arithmetic and Algebra-20.
Life of Cardinal Wolsey-23. Physical Geography-24.
Life of Sic Christopher Wren.

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HENRY PHILLPOTTS, D.D., on the Subject of the
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Monday, April 28, 1828.
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