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 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 43 Yates, 1st ed. 1819, 2nd ed. 1833, s b. s., pp. 157. By the Brothers Palit and Brajaniohan Majumdar, a friend of Ram Mohan Roy's. Treats of the earth's motion, shape, size, the of the earth, day, night, seasons, moon's changes and motion round the earth, tides, the stars, eclipses. A work of a similar kind was published in 1834, by the European Science Trans- lating Society, a translation of the Library of Useful Know- ' ledge publication on that subject. In 1836, Monsieur Guerin, the Catholic Cure of Chandernagar, published a list of all the solar and lunar eclipses from 1836 to 1940. 184. Cham Pat, pt. 1, by Akhaykurriar Dut/r. p., 1853, pp. 104, 8 as. Roz. & Co., with miscellaneous information on knowledge, and its pleasures, on philanthrophy, the passions, treats of the following subjects : volcanoes, the walrus, beaver, Russian mice, polypus, laws of vegetation, attraction, atoms, fire-flies of South America, ouran^-outang, cataract, boiling springs, with wood cuts of Vesuvius, the river horse, beaver, flowers, fire-fly, our ang-ou tang. 185. Cham Pat, pt. 2, t. p, pp. 102, 8 as. 1853. Besides Literature and Ethics, treats of Corals, Icebergs, Balloons, the Compass, the Moon, Solar System, Thermometer, Comets. 186. (A. B.) CHEMISTRY, MACK'S, Kimh/a Videa Sdr, Roz. & Co., 2 Rs. 8 as., pp. 337. Treats of chemical forces, caloric, light, electricity, chemical substances, oxygen, chlorine, bromine, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, boron, a series of treatises in Bengali on scientific subjects. The author was an able Bengali scholar. 187. EXPERIMENTS IN SCIENCE, Kautuk Ta- rungini, by Bh. M. Mittra, 1852, lloz. 8c Co., I Re. 2 as., pp. 96, 2nd ed. A drawing of the steam engine, with a very good account of it, and 96 entertaining and useful chemical expe- riments such as on metals, invisible ink, putting an egg into a small mouthed bottle, arithmetical puzzles, balloon making, eating fire, making paper that will not ignite : the experiments are simple, not expensive, and the practising them would interest A copy of this book ought to be in every school. 188. MECHANICS, Padartha Videa, t. p., pp. 59, 8 as., gives a number of diagrams in illustration, treats of the common qualities of matter : gravity : motion and its different
 * sun, planets, gravity, light, Venus 1 transit, length and breadth
 * selenium, the steam engine : designed to have been the first of
 * village people much, and free their minds from many fears.