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Among rare books recently received are Mandeville's Fable of the Bees and and a four volume edition of Dyer's History of Europe.
A rare copy of Maudeville's Fable of the Bees, printed in 1728; also a 2 vol. edition of Les Miserables, illustrated, now out of print. New Books - Dicey: England's Case against Home Rule; McLennon: Studies in Ancient History - a reprint of Primitive Marriage: Dowden: Life of Shelley, 2...
A rare copy of Maudeville's Fable of the Bees, printed in 1728; also a 2 vol. edition of Les Miserables, illustrated, now out of print. New Books - Dicey: England's Case against Home Rule; McLennon: Studies in Ancient History - a reprint of Primitive Marriage: Dowden: Life of Shelley. 2...
Birds, insects and snails, he continued, do not work gratuitously, being either allured by food, warmth or shelter. They enter flowers either for these purposes, or for that of depositing their eggs. Flowers are peculiarly adapted for various kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones...
The grinding and the polishing are done as follows: In the first place the curves of the lens are determined by experiments with smaller models, aided, of course, by the maker's long experience. Then an iron disk, large enough to-cover the glass, is made into a concave shape...