The second volume of the Series is written by Professor Kimball, and deals with the physical properties of Gases. He has taken into account all the most recent works on “the third state of matter,” including Crooke’s recent researches on “radiant matter.” There is a chapter also on Avogadro’s law and the Kinetic theory, which chemical as well as physical students will read with interest.
In the third volume Dr. Thurston treats, in a popular way, on “Heat as a Form of Energy”; and his book will be found a capital introduction to the more exhaustive works of Maxwell, Carnot, Tyndall, and others.
On account of the requirements of the subject, a large number of wood-cuts have been made for the first volume, and the following volumes will also be fully illustrated wherever the subject is susceptible of it.
The first three volumes are now ready. Others will follow, written, like these, by thoroughly competent writers in their own departments; and each volume will be complete in itself.
Heinemann’s Scientific Handbooks.
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MANUAL OF ASSAYING GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, AND LEAD ORES.
By Walter Lee Brown, B.Sc.
Revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged, with a chapter on THE ASSAYING OF FUEL, &c., by A. B. Griffiths, Ph.D., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.C.S.
In One Volume, small crown 8vo. Illustrated, 7s. 6d.