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MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.

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i. Publication Industrisllc. (Armsngaud Aine,
5. Jamieson's Mechanics Of Fluids.
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8. Organ fur die Fortschri'te des Eisenbahnwe-
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| 81 Templeton's Milwright's and Engineers
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| 81. The Mathematician. Q4onaon.)
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| 81 The Artisan.
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| lilo Blanc, Psrs.)
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| A. Setting out Curves on Railways. (Law,
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| AZ. Hodge on the Steam Engine
| ~. Scientific American.
| So. Railroad Journal. New York
| 81. American Artisan.
| So Mechanics Magazine
| So. Nicholson's peter Dictionary of Architee-
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! 50. Dctionaire de Marine a Voiles ct Vapeur,
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| IS. Conway and Menai Tubuler Bridges Fair
Sc Brees' Railway Practice:
| 81. Barlow's Mathematical Dictionary.
| SO. Bowdtchs Navigation.
| 50. Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men.
| 60. Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia.
| Luke Herbert.)
| g. Patent Journal London.
| g. Bree's Glossary Of Engineering.
| 63 Encyclopedia Of Civil Engineering. Grassy
| Ga Craddock's Lectures OIL the Steam Engine.
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