THE PHYSICAL ATLAS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA. "A perfect treasure of compressed information."-Sir John Herschel. THE PHYSICAL ATLAS. By ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S. E., &c. Reduced from the Imperial Folio. This Edition contains Twenty-five Maps, including a Palæontological and Geological Map of the British Islands, with Descriptive Letterpress, and a very copious Index. In imperial 4to, half-bound morocco, £2, 12s. 6d. "Executed with remarkable care, and is as accurate, and, for all educational purposes, as valuable, as the splendid large work (by the same author) which has now a European reputation."-Eclectic Review. A GEOLOGICAL MAP OF EUROPE. By SIR R. I. MURCHISON, D.C.L., F.R. S., &c., Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland; and JAMES NICOL, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Constructed by ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, F. R.S. E., &c. Four Sheets imperial, beautifully printed in Colours. In Sheets, £3, 3s.; in a Cloth Case, 4to, £3, 10s. GEOLOGICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS, including Tables of the Fossils of the different Epochs, &c. &c., from the Sketches and Notes of Professor EDWARD FORBES. With Illustrative and Explanatory Letterpress. 21s. GEOLOGICAL MAP OF SCOTLAND. By JAMES NICOL, F. R.S. E., &c., Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. With Explanatory Notes. The Topography by ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, F. R.S. E., &c. Scale, 10 miles to an inch. Cloth Case, 21s. In INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S. E., &c. With Illustrations and a Glossarial Index. Crown 8vo, 2s. INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF GEOLOGY. By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S. E., F. G.S. With Engravings on Wood and Glossarial Index. Fifth Edition, 1s. 9d. "It has not often been our good fortune to examine a text-book on science of which we could express an opinion so entirely favourable as we are enabled to do of Mr Page's little work."-Athenæum. ADVANCED TEXT-BOOK OF GEOLOGY, Descriptive and Industrial. By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S. E., F.G.S. With Engravings and Glossary of Scientific Terms. Third Edition, revised and enlarged, 6s. "It is therefore with unfeigned pleasure that we record our appreciation of his Advanced Text-Book of Geology.' We have carefully read this truly satisfactory book, and do not hesitate to say that it is an excellent compendium of the great facts of Geology, and written in a truthful and philosophic spirit."— Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. HANDBOOK OF GEOLOGICAL TERMS AND GEOLOGY. THE PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE: "Mr Page, whose admirable text-books of geology have already secured him a position of importance in the scientific world, will add considerably to his reputation by the present sketch, as he modestly terms it, of the Life-System, or gradual evolution of the vitality of our globe. In no manual that we are aware of have the facts and phenomena of biology been presented in at once so systematic and succinct a form, the successive manifestations of life on the earth set forth in so clear an order, or traced so vividly from the earliest organisms deep buried in its stratified crust, to the familiar forms that now adorn and people its surface."-Literary Gazette. THE GEOLOGICAL EXAMINATOR: A Progressive Series of Questions adapted to the Introductory and Advanced Text-Books of Geology. Prepared to assist Teachers in framing their Examinations, and Students in testing their own Progress and Proficiency. By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S. E., F.G.S. 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By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Private Secretary to Lord Elgin. Illustrated with numerous Engravings in Chromo-Lithography, Maps, and Engravings on Wood, from Original Drawings and Photographs. Second Edition. In 2 vols. 8vo, 21s. "The volumes in which Mr Oliphant has related these transactions will be read with the strongest inte rest now, and deserve to retain a permanent place in the literary and historical annals of our time."-Edinburgh Review. RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA In the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq. 8vo, with Map and other Illustrations. Fourth Edition, 14s. EGYPT, THE SOUDAN, AND CENTRAL AFRICA: With Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator. By JOHN PETHERICK, F. R. G.S., Her Britannic Majesty's Consul for the Soudan. In 8vo, with a Map, 16s. NOTES ON NORTH AMERICA: Agricultural, Economical, and Social. By PROFESSOR J. F. W. 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"Of the many noble atlases prepared by Mr Johnston and published by Messrs Blackwood & Sons, this Royal Atlas will be the most useful to the public, and will deserve to be the most popular."-Athenæum. "We know no series of maps which we can more warmly recommend. The accuracy, wherever we have attempted to put it to the test, is really astonishing "-Saturday Review. "The culmination of all attempts to depict the face of the world appears in the Royal Atlas, than which it is impossible to conceive anything more perfect."- Morning Herald. "This is, beyond question, the most splendid and luxurious, as well as the most useful and complete, of all existing atlases."-Guardian. "There has not, we believe, been produced for general public use a body of maps equal in beauty and completeness to the Royal Atlas just issued by Mr A. K. Johnston."-Examiner. "An almost daily reference to, and comparison of it with others, since the publication of the first part some two years ago until now, enables us to say, without the slightest hesitation, that this is by far the most complete and authentic atlas that has yet been issued."-Scotsman. "Beyond doubt the greatest geographical work of our time."-Museum INDEX GEOGRAPHICUS: Being an Index to nearly ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND NAMES OF PLACES, &C. ; with their LATITUDES and LONGITUDES as given in KEITH JOHNSTON'S ROYAL ATLAS;' together with the COUNTRIES and SUBDIVISIONS OF THE COUNTRIES in which they are situated. In 1 vol. large 8vo., 21s. A NEW MAP OF EUROPE. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E. inches. Cloth Case, 21s. ATLAS OF SCOTLAND. Size, 4 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 5 31 Maps of the Counties of Scotland, coloured. Bound in roan, price 10s. 6d. Each County may be had separately, in Cloth Case, 1s. KEITH JOHNSTON'S SCHOOL ATLASES :— GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY, exhibiting the Actual and Com- PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, illustrating, in a Series of Original Designs, the ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY for the Use of Junior Classes. A New and Cheaper Edition. 20 Maps, including a Map of Canaan and Palestine. Half-bound, 5s. "They are as superior to all School Atlases within our knowledge, as were the larger works of the same Author in advance of those that preceded them."-Educational Times. "Decidedly the best School Atlases we have ever seen."- English Journal of Education. "The best, the fullest, the most accurate and recent, as well as artistically the most beautiful atlas that can be put into the schoolboy's hands."-Museum, April 1863. A MANUAL OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY: Mathematical, Physical, and Political. Embracing a complete Development of the River-Systems of the Globe. By the REV. ALEX. MACKAY, F.R.G.S. With Index. 7s. 6d., bound in leather. THE BOOK OF THE FARM. Detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattle-man, Field-worker, and Dairymaid, and forming a safe Monitor for Students in Practical Agriculture. By HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E. 2 vols. royal Svo, £3, handsomely bound in cloth, with upwards of 600 Illustrations. "The best book I have ever met with."-Professor Johnston. "We have thoroughly examined these volumes; but to give a full notice of their varied and valuable contents would occupy a larger space than we can conveniently devote to their discussion; we therefore, in general terms, commend them to the careful study of every young man who wishes to become a good practical farmer."-Times. "One of the completest works on agriculture of which our literature can boast."-Agricultural Gazette. THE BOOK OF FARM IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINES. By JAMES SLIGHT and R. SCOTT BURN. Edited by HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E. Illustrated with 876 Engravings. 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