Abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies and Scientific Journals of the past year. With several Engravings. "One of the best and cheapest books of the day."--_Mag. Nat. Hist._ "An annual register of new inventions and improvements, in a popular form like this, cannot fail to be useful."--_Lit. Gaz._ Printed for JOHN LIMBIRD, 143, Strand:--of whom may be had the Volumes for the three preceding years. * * * * * _Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; G.G. BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers._ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 486, by Various