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tions. Quarto. Cloth, $7.50. "The most complete account of ancient Egypt ever published."--_Chicago Herald_. "Professor Maspero's intimate acquaintance with Egypt and its literature, and the opportunities offered him by his position for several years as director of the Bulak Museum give him a unique claim to speak with authority on the history of the Nile Valley."--_New York Sun_. _POPULAR ASTRONOMY: A General Description of the Heavens_. By CAMILLE FLAMMARION. Translated from the French by J. ELLARD GORE, F. R. A. S. With 3 Plates and 288 Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, $4.50. "M. Flammarion has produced a work that charms while it interests. He has classified astronomy so perfectly that any person of ordinary intelligence may learn from this book practically all that the men in the observatories know."--_New York Times_. "The fullest and most elaborate compendium of popular astronomy.... The book might reasonably be pronounced the most desirable of its kind."--_New York Sun_. _LIFE OF SIR RICHARD OWEN_. By Rev. RICHARD OWEN. With an Introduction by T. H. HUXLEY. 2 vols. 12mo. Cloth, $7.50. "The value of these memoirs is that they disclose with great minuteness the daily labors and occupations of one of the foremost men of science of England."--_Boston Herald_. "A noteworthy contribution to biographical literature."--_Philadelphia Press_. _DEAN BUCKLAND_. The Life and Correspondence of WILLIAM BUCKLAND, D. D., F. R. S., sometime Dean of Westminster, twice President of the Theological Society, and first President of the British Association. By his Daughter, Mrs. GORDON. With Portraits and Illustrations. 8vo. Buckram, $3.50. "Next to Charles Darwin, Dean Buckland is certainly the most interesting personality in the field of natural science that the present century has produced."--_London Daily News_. "A very readable book, for it gives an excellent account, without any padding or unnecessary detail, of a most original man."--_Westminster Gazette._ _THE ICE AGE IN NORTH AMERICA, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man_. By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, D. D., LL. D., F. G. S. A., Professor in Oberlin Theological Seminary; Assistant on the United States Geological Survey. With an appendix on "The Probable Cause of Glaciation," by WARREN UPHAM, F. G. S. A., Assistant on the Geological Surveys of New Hampshire, Minnesota, and the United States. New and enlarged edition. With 150 Maps and Illustrations. 8vo,
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