SCIENCE

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SCIENCE CLASS-BOOKS

Edited by

The REV. ARTHUR RIGG, M.A.,
LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE COLLEGE, CHESTER.

These Volumes are designed expressly for School use, and by their especial reference to the requirements of a School Class-Book, aim at making Science-teaching a subject for regular and methodical study in Public and Private Schools.

AN ELEMENTARY CLASS-BOOK ON SOUND.

By GEORGE CAREY FOSTER, B.A., F.R.S., Fellow of, and Professor of Physics in, University College, London. AN ELEMENTARY CLASS-BOOK ON ELECTRICITY.

By GEORGE CAREY FOSTER, B.A., F.R.S., Fellow of, and Professor

of Physics in, University College, London. BOTANY FOR CLASS-TEACHING,

With Exercises for Private Work.

By F. E. KITCHENER, M.A., F.L.S., Assistant-Master at Rugby

School, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. ASTRONOMY FOR CLASS-TEACHING.

With Exercises for Private Work.

By Wallis HAY LAVERTY, M.A., late Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. The knowledge of Mathematics assumed will be Euclid, Books I.-VI., and Quadratic Equations.

Other Works are in preparation.

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A Year's Botany.

Adapted to Home and School Use.
By FRANCES ANNA KITCHENER.
Illustrated by the Author. Crown 8vo. 5s.
(See Specimen Page, No. 2.)

CONTENTS. General Description of Flowers-Flowers with Simple Pistils--Flowers with Com. pound Pistils - Flowers with Apocarpous Fruits - Flowers with Syncarpous Fruits Stamens and Morphology of Branches-Fertilisation-Seeds- Early Growth and Food of Plants-Wood, Stems, and Roots-Leaves-Classification- Umbellates, Composites, Spurges, and Pines-Some Monocotyledonous Families-Orchids-Appendix of Technical Terms- Index.

An Easy Introduction to Chemistry.

For the use of Schools.

Edited by the Rev. ARTHUR RIGG, M.A., late Principal of The Colo lege, Chester, and WALTER T. GOOLDEN, B.A., late Science Scholar of Merton College, Oxford. New Edition, revised. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 25. 6d.

(See Specimen Page, No. 9.) "We seldom come across a work of “ There are a simplicity and a clearness such simplicity in chemistry as this. It in the description and explanations given ought to be in the hands of every student in this little volume which certainly comof chemistry.”-Chemical Review.

mend it to the attention of the young."

Athenæum.

Notes on Building Construction.

Arranged to meet the requirements of the syllabus of the Science and
Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South
Kensington Museum.
PART I.—FIRST STAGE, OR ELEMENTARY COURSE.
Parts II. and III.

[In the Press. Medium Svo, with 325 woodcuts, ios. 6d. · REPORT ON THE EXAMINATION IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, HELD BY THE SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT, SOUTH KENSINGTON, IN MAY, 1875:- "The want of a text-book in this subject, arranged in accordance with the published syllabus, and therefore limiting the students and teachers to the prescribed course, has lately been well met by a work published by Messrs. Rivingtons, entitled Notes on Building Construction, arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.' June 18, 1875.

(Signed) H. C. SEDDON, Major, R.E." “Something of the sort was very much The text is prepared in an extremely needed. A book distilling the substance simple and consecutive manner, advancing of larger works and putting the outlines of from rudimental and general statements to constructional science together in a small those which are comparatively advanced ; compass, is a very important aid to students. it is a thoroughly coherent, self-sustained A very useful little book.”-Builder.

account."-Athenæum.

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LATIN
Easy Latin Stories for Beginners.

Forming a First Latin Reading Book for Junior Forms in Schools.
With Notes and a Vocabulary.
By G. L. BENNETT, M.A., Assistant Master at Rugby School.
Crown 8vo.

[In the press.

Elementary Rules of Latin Pronun

ciation.

By ARTHUR HOLMES, M.A., late Senior Fellow and Dean of Clare College, Cambridge.

Crown 8vo. On a card, 9d.

Outlines of Latin Sentence Construc

tion.
By E. D. MANSFIELD, B.A., Assistant Master at Clifton College.

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Easy Exercises in Latin Prose.

By CHARLES BIGG, M.A., Principal of Brighton College.

Small 8vo. Is. 4d. ; sewed, gd.

Latin Prose Exercises.

For Beginners, and Junior Forms of Schools.
By R. PRowDe SMITH, B.A., Assist.-Master at Cheltenham College.

New Edition. Crown 8vo. 25. 6d.

An Elementary Latin Grammar.

By J. HAMBLIN SMITH, M.A., of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ; late Lecturer of S. Peter's College, Cambridge.

Small 8vo. 35. 6d.

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Henry's First Latin Book.

By THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M.A.

Twenty-second Edition. 12mo. 35. Tutor's Key, is. Recommended in the Guide to the choice of Classical Books by J. B. Mayor, M.A., Professor of Classical Literature at King's College, late Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge.

A Practical Introduction to Latin A

Prose Composition.

By THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M.A.

Sixteenth Edition. 8vo. 6s. 6d. Tutor's Key, Is. 6d.

Cornelius Nepos.

With Critical Questions and Answers, and an Imitative Exercise on each Chapter. By THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M.A.'

fifth Edition. 12mo. 4s. A First Verse Book.

Being an Easy Introduction to the Mechanism of the Latin Hexa-
meter and Pentameter.
By THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M. A.
Eleventh Edition.

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Latin Elegiac Verse.

By C. G. GEPP, B.A., late Junior Student of Christ Church, Oxford; Head-Master of the College, Stratford-on-Avon.

Third Edition, Revised. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d. Tutor's Key, 55. Recommended in the Guide to the Choice of Classical Books by J. B. Mayor, M.A., Professor of Classical Literature at King's College, late Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge.

I 2mo.

Progressive Exercises

in

Selections from Livy, Books VIII.

and ix.

With Notes and Map.

By E. CALVERT, LL.D., St. John's College, Cambridge; and R. SAWARD, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; AssistantMaster in Shrewsbury School.

Small 8vo. 25.

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New Edition, re-arranged, with fresh Pieces and additional References.

Materials and Models for Latin

Prose Composition.

Selected and arranged by J. Y. SARGENT, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford; and T. F. DALLIN, M.A., Tutor, late Fellow, of Queen's College, Oxford.

Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d.
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Latin Version of (60) Selected Pieces

from Materials and Models.

By J. Y. SARGENT, M.A.

Crown 8vo. 55. May be had by Tutors only, on direct application to the Publishers.

Stories from Ovid in Elegiac Verse.

With Notes for School Use and Marginal References to the PUBLIC
SCHOOL LATIN PRIMER.

By R. W. TAYLOR, M.A., Assistant-Master at Rugby School, late
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Crown 8vo. 35. 6d.
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The Æneid of Virgil.

Edited, with Notes at the end, by FRANCIS STORR, B.A., Chief Master of Modern Subjects”in Merchant Taylors' School.

BOOKS XI and XII.

Crown 8vo. 25. 6d.
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Classical Examination Papers.

Edited, with Notes and References, by P. J. F. GANTILLON, M.A.,
Classical Master in Cheltenham College.

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Ecloga Ovidiana.

From the Elegiac Poems. With English Notes.
By THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M.A.

Thirteenth Edition. 12mo.

25. 6d.

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