Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical MenJohnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis)
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Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men
Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis)
Gold mines and mining
=THE STEAM ENGINE.= By Prof. Jamieson. Eleventh Edition, 3/6
=METALLURGY.= By Prof. Humboldt Sexton, Glasgow and
West of Scotland Technical College.
Third Edition, Revised, 6/
=PHYSICS.= A TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSICS:
By J. H. Poynting, Sc.D., F.R.S., and
J. J. Thomson, M.A., F.R.S.
Vol. I.--Properties of Matter. Third Edition, 10/6
Vol. II.--Sound. Third Edition, 8/6
Vol. III.--Heat. Second Edition, 15/
=PHOTOGRAPHY.= By A. Brothers, F.R.A.S. Second Edition, 21/
LONDON: CHARLES GRIFFIN & CO., LIMITED, EXETER STREET, STRAND.
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OPEN-AIR STUDIES IN BOTANY:
=SKETCHES OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS IN THEIR HOMES.=
BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER, B.A., M.R.I.A.
=Illustrated by Drawings from Nature by S. Rosamond Praeger, and
Photographs by R. Welch.=
General Contents.--A Daisy-Starred Pasture--Under the
Hawthorns--By the River--Along the Shingle--A Fragrant Hedgerow--A
Connemara Bog--Where the Samphire grows--A Flowery Meadow--Among
the Corn (a Study in Weeds)--In the Home of the Alpines--A City
Rubbish-Heap--Glossary.
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OPEN-AIR STUDIES IN GEOLOGY:
=An Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors.=
By GRENVILLE A. J. COLE, F.G.S., M.R.I.A., Professor of Geology
in the Royal College of Science for Ireland, and Examiner in the
University of London.
General Contents.--The Materials of the Earth--A Mountain
Hollow--Down the Valley--Along the Shore--Across the Plains--Dead
Volcanoes--A Granite Highland--The Annals of the Earth--The Surrey
Hills--The Folds of the Mountains.
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