Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-09
SCIENTIFIC READING.
A Carefully Selected List That includes
Works on Every subject.

The best scientific works are often diff
cult to obtain by the Independent student
and interested reader. So many valuable
scientific books are now offered the public
that it is often puzzling to find just what
Is wanted or needed. The following list
gives the best books on the subjects stated:
Physical Geography--Guizot, Marsh,
Maury, Michelet, Rectus and Someryille.
Physics Deschanel, Ganot and
Lardner
Forces Of Nature-Faraday Guillemin,
Buchner, Stewart and Youmans.
Mechanics, Dynamics and Engineering
Ball, Ewbank, Lardner, Rankin and
Todhunter.
Acoustics - Blaserna, Helmholtz and
Tyndall.
Optics-Brewster, Lockyer and Tyndall
Spectrum Analysis = Lockyer, Roscoe
and Schiller.
microscopy = Beale, Carpenter, Frey,
Gosse, Hogg, Lancaster and Somerville.
Heat-Tyndall, Clark and Box.
Electricity and Magnetism - Faraday,
Franklin, Jenkin, Hospitailer, Maxwell
Prescott, Schellen, Siemens and Tyndall
Benjamin's age Of Electricity" and Men
denhalls Century of Electricity" are pop
ular manuals.
Meteorological "Weather,"
Greely's American Weather." Blodgett's
"Climatology." Flammarions "Atmos
phere," and valuable government works.
Chemistry-Bloxam, Faraday, Fresenius,
I4iebig, Miller, Muspratt, Roscoe, Silliman,
Wagner and Watts. Roscoe and Scbor-
lemmer's Treatise on Chemistry" now in
course Of publication, is the fullest and
latest presentation. The new chemistry
has been well treated by Cooke, Eliot,
Storer and Remsen. For chemical analysis
the works Of Fresenius take high rank.
Astronomy--Airy( the astronomer royal,
Arago, Ball, Chauvenet, Gnillemin, Her
schel, Kepler Laplace, Lockycr, Newcomb,
Proctor, Somerville and Whewell Serviss'
Astronomy with an Opera Glass" and
Langley's 'New Astronomy" deserve high
praise.
Natural History-Abbott, Burroughs,
Thoreau, Jefferies and IIumboldt's "Cos-
mos" and "Views of Nature" are good in
cultivating the love Of nature and outdoor
life. Darwin has left record of how much
these authors had to do in giving him his
love OF nature. Whites Natural History
of Selborne" has more general interest
than its title would indicate. Pliny, the
elder, the father of natural history, should
not be forgotten. Agassiz's Methods of
Study in Natural History and First Les
sons in Natural History" Darwin's NAT
ural History" and Geology of the Voyage
of the Beagle" Gosse's "Romance of Nat
ural History" Pouchet's Universe" and
"The Vestges of the Natural History of
Creation" the author of which since his
death is known to be Robert Chambers, are
books OF interest.
Geology-Danay Agassiz, Gcillie, Miller,
Murchison, Winchell, Page, Figuier and
Lyell.
Mineralogy and Phillips and
Simonin's Underground Life" very in
teresting presentation.
Paleontology-O and Nicholson
Botany-Asa Gray, Darwin, Hooker
LinnRus, La Maout, Decaisne, Fighter
and Sachs "Text Book of Botany" which
is the fullest treatise
Biology Evolution Etc-Darwin, Wal
lace, Hacckel Huxley and Romanes.
Ethnology and Archaeology Lubbock,
Haeckel, Tyler, Waltz, Wood, Brace,
Buchner, Latham, Lyell, Mott, Glidden
and prichard.
Entomology Figuier, Wood, Packard
Ornithology- Merriam, Ingersoll,
Burroughs, RidgeWay, Audubon, Coues,
Jardine, Figuicr's "Mammalia Reptiles
and Birds"
Ocean-Mchelet's "The Sea-" Figuier's
"Ocean World"
Zoology Agassiz, Buckland, Button,
Cuver, Gosse, Huxley and Wallace. Jar
din's "Naturalist's Library" in forty WI.
umes Kingsley's Natural History"
Woods Popular Natural History" and
Clones Without Hands," Packard's and
Orton's Zoology" are good works-In-
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