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Binding has wear; outer joints cracked; spine leather is dry and crumbling; free front endpaper has nineteenth-century ownership signature (in fountain pen) of Henry Bold, Hopkinton; book is heavily foxed throughout; many pages have light vertical crease or other minor wear. 384 p. Jan. 1, 1835: meteorology, german music, fishing in tyrol, american antiquities, man, rock fish, general knowledge, original miscellany -- jan. 15, 1835: active and passive strength, meteoric phenomena, human mind, earthquake of caraccas, style of writing, nursery of the arts and sciences, zodiacal light, egyptian enterprise, voraciousness of the eel, struggle between an eagle and a salmon, to the editor, storms of sand, the royal society in its infancy, original miscellany -- feb. 1, 1835: nature and properties of air, active and passive strength, anatomy of the turtle, skeleton of a toad, pure water in cities, pliny to trajan, original miscellany -- feb. 15, 1835: the water of cities, babbage's calculating machine, atheneum lectures, american zoology, a new variety of the human species, improvement in chronometers, catacombs, rocky mountains, daily consumption of water, diving bells, a leaping fish, orig. misc. -- mar. 1, 1835: the water of cities, notes on the hair, phrenology in ireland, musical resemblances, a shower of toads, western mounds, graves and fortifications, muscular strength of insects, blue shadows, orig. misc. -- mar. 15, 1835: dr. lardner's lecture on steam, the rock of gibraltar, charming of a serpent, desperate conflict between a bug and a spider, sanatory effects of cultivation, salmon, scientific exploration of america, fusing point of metals, surmullet, the planets inhabited, orig. misc. -- apr. 1, 1835: the moral influence of the fine arts, land in the moon, pheasants, the approaching comet, orig. misc. -- apr. 15, 1835: caloric, mount etna, blight of wheat, grasses, petrified shells, soap making, lake erie, bank of newfoundland, bituminous springs, orig. misc. -- may 1, 1835: general view of the science of astronomy, partridges, salmon, eels, orig. misc. -- may 15, 1835: modern fortification, harmony of the solar system, clavis calendaria, buffalo, curious fish pond, habits and culture of milkweed, bahama[s], the rabbit, rattlesnakes, orig. misc. -- june 1, 1835: audubon's birds of america, geology, a philosopher's note book, visit to a greek burial ground in 1833, the electric eel, orig. misc. -- june 15, 1835: the science of navigation and naval architecture, mr. audubon, the capibara, waters of the mississippi, daniel boon[e], orig. misc.
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