The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art Annual of Scientific Discovery, or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1870 L'Année Scientifique et Industrielle Causeries Scientifiques Annuaire Scientifique Fahrbuch der Erfindungen

Abstract

GROUPING these volumes according to the languages in which they are written, we may dismiss the first two with a very few remarks. Mr. Timbs literally gives his readers nothing whatever but a collection of cuttings from the most miscellaneous sources, including the Pall Mall Gazette, Times, Spectator, Illustrated News, Liverpool Albion, &c.; while Mr. Trowbridge and his coadjutors (who have a respectable scientific status) present us with a much more perfect, although still an incomplete, picture of the leading discoveries of the year. The introductory notes by the Editor constitute the most valuable portion of the American book, which treats of the progress of science, under the respective heads of (1) Mechanics and Useful Arts, occupying 135 pages; (2) Natural Philosophy, to which 64 pages are devoted; (3) Chemistry, (4) Geology, (5) Biology, (6) Astronomy and Meteorology, and (7) Geography and Antiquities. This volume, like that of Mr. Timbs, exhibits a too free use of the scissors, but the extracts are almost invariably taken from periodicals of good scientific repute.

The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art.

By John Timbs. Pp. 288. (London: Lockwood and Co., 1870.)

Annual of Scientific Discovery, or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1870.

Edited by John Trowbridge, aided by Samuel Kneeland, M.D., and W. R. Nichols. Pp. xxii. and 354. (Boston: Gould and Lincoln; London: Trübner and Co., 1870.)

L'Année Scientifique et Industrielle.

Par Louis Figuier. Quatorzième Année (1869), pp. 606. (Paris: Hachette; London: Williams and Norgate, 1870.)

Causeries Scientifiques.

Neuvième Année (1869). Par Henri de Parville. Pp. 363. (Paris: Rothschild; London: Williams and Norgate, 1870.)

Annuaire Scientifique.

Par P. P. Dehérain. Neuvième Année (1869), pp. 387. (Paris: Masson; London: Williams and Norgate, 1870.)

Fahrbuch der Erfindungen.

Herausgegeben von H. Hirzel H. Greschel. Fünfter Jahrgang, pp. 416. Leipzig: Quant; London: Williams and Norgate, 1869.)