A descriptive catalogue of valuable works, with illustrations . circulation among all who love science much and religion more. — Pwrt-tan Recorder. THE OLD RED SANDSTONE; or, New Walks in an Old Field. ByHugh Miller. Illustrated with Plates and Geological Sections. 12mo, cloth, 1,00. Mr. Millers exceedingly interesting book on this formation is just the sort of work to render anysubject popular. It is written in a remarkably pleasing style, and contains a wonderful amount ofinformation.— Westminster Review. It is, withal, one of the most beautiful specimens of English composition to be found,
A descriptive catalogue of valuable works, with illustrations . circulation among all who love science much and religion more. — Pwrt-tan Recorder. THE OLD RED SANDSTONE; or, New Walks in an Old Field. ByHugh Miller. Illustrated with Plates and Geological Sections. 12mo, cloth, 1,00. Mr. Millers exceedingly interesting book on this formation is just the sort of work to render anysubject popular. It is written in a remarkably pleasing style, and contains a wonderful amount ofinformation.— Westminster Review. It is, withal, one of the most beautiful specimens of English composition to be found, conveyinginformation on a most difficult and profound science, in a style at once novel, pleasing, and contains the results of twenty years close observation and experiment, resulting in an accumulationof facts which not only dissipate some dark and knotty old theories with regard to ancient formations,but establish the great truths of geology in more perfect and harmonious consistency with the greattruthsofrevelation. — ^Hiawy (Spectator, A. VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC WORKS. A TREATISE ON THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE Animal Kingdom. By Profs. C. Th. Von Siebold and H. Stannius. Translatedfrom the German, with Notes, Additions, &c., By Waldo J. Burnett, M. D., volumes, octavo, cloth. This is unquestionably the best and most complete work of its class yet published; and its appear-ance in an English dress, with the corrections, improvements, additions, etc., of the American Editor,will no doubt be welcomed by the men of science in this country and in Europe, from whence or-ders for supplies of the work have been received. THE POETRY OF SCIENCE ; or, the Physical Phenomena of Robert Hunt, Author of Panthea, Researches of Light, &c. 12mo, cloth, 1,25. We are heartily glad to see this interesting work republished in America. It is a book that is abook. — Scientific American. It is one of the most readable, interesting, and instructive works of the
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