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SCIENCE PRIMERS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

Everyone ought to know something about the air we breathe and the earth we live upon, and about the relations between them; and in this little work the author wishes to show what sort of questions may be put about some of the chief parts of the book of nature, and especially about two ''of them — the Air and the Earth. The divisions of the book are as'' follows: — The Shape of the Earth — Day and Night — The Air — The Circulation of Water on the Land — The Sea — The Inside of the Earth.