Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, with material additions. INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.
On Thursday, the 5th of January, 1854, will be published, price Twopence, the First of a Series of Works, entitled ORR'S CIRCLE OF THE SCIENCES; consisting of Short Treatises on the Fundamental Principles and Characteristic Features of Scientific and Practical Pursuits. With Numerous Illustrative Engravings on Wood.
MESSRS. W. S. ORR & CO. have to announce the Early Publication, in Weekly Numbers, of a Series of Short Treatises, which will include every useful and attractive section of human acquirement, whether scientific, practical, or descriptive; and which will be issued at a price so moderate as to place them within the reach of every member of the community.
Although every subject will be treated in a philosophic spirit, yet it will not be forgotten that the work is designed for popular use; and therefore the Editor and the various Contributors will endeavour to clothe the whole Series, and the Scientific Treatises especially, in simple language, so as to render them easy introductions to practical studies.
To carry the design into effect, assistance has been obtained from eminent scientific men: and the Editor has the satisfaction of announcing among the Contributors to the first year's volumes the names of Professor Owen, of the Royal College of Surgeons; Sir William Jardine, Bart.; Professors Ansted and Tennant, of King's College; the Rev. Walter Mitchell, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; and Professor Young, Examiner in Mathematics at the University of London. Every confidence, therefore, may be placed in the publication, as regards its soundness of principle, its extent of information, and its accordance with the results of the latest researches and discoveries.
During the first year either three or four volumes will be completed. The respective subjects will not be issued in consecutive weeks; but the paging of each series will be continuous:—so that the whole, when collected at the end of the year, will form separate Volumes, with Title-pages, Prefaces, Tables of Contents, Indices—each Volume being a distinct work on Natural Philosophy, on the Two Great Divisions of Natural History, and on the Mathematical Sciences.
The "Circle of the Sciences" will thus, by the aid of copious Analytical Indices, combine all the advantages of an Encyclopædia, as a work of reference, without the irksome repetition which alphabetical arrangements necessarily involve.