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Of technical and scientific, works, we have to acknowledge Rail.

ways and Locomotives, lectures delivered at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, in 1877, by John Wolfe Barry and Frederick J. Bramwell, F.R.S. (Longmans.)—The Water Supply of England and Wales, by Charles E. do Ranee. (E. Stanford.)—Outlines of Naval Hygiene, by John D. Macdonald, M.D. (Smith and Elder.) —Worlcod Examination Questions in Plain Geometrical Drawing, by F. Edward Hulme. (Longmans.)—Modern Metrology, a Manual of the Metrical Units and Systems of the Present Century, by Louis D'A. Jackson. (Crosby Lockwood and Co.)