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United Kingdom—Ordnance Survey Maps.
Board of Agriculture. Ordnance Survey Maps. I. Copies of Three Contracts entered
into by the Board of Agriculture, with the Agents appointed for the Sale of
Ordnance Survey Maps in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. II. Copy of the
Conditions upon which Agents are appointed in Provincial Towns. III. List of
the Agents appointed in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. IV. List of
Post Offices at which Ordnance Survey Maps may be ordered. London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1897. Size 13 x S£, pp. 16. Frice 2d.
United Kingdom—Scotland. P.R.S. Edinburgh 21 (1897) : 105-115. Mossman.
On_the Seasonal Death-rate from Certain Diseases in Edinburgh during the Period
1878-94, with Remarks on the Relation between Weather and Mortality Bv
R. C. Mossman. With Plate. y
United Kingdom—Scotland. White
The Flora of Perthshire. By Francis Buchanan W. White. Edited with an
Introduction and Life of the Author, a list of his Scientific publications, and an
Appendix. By James W. H. Trail. Edinburgh: Printed for the Perthshire
Society of Natural Science by W. Blackwood & Sons, 1898. Size 7i x 54 pp lx
and 408. Portrait and Map. Price Is. Gd. Presented by the Publishers. ’
The geographical part of the late Dr. Buchanan White’s discussion of the flora of
1 erth includes the careful subdivision of that county into natural districts, in each of
which the distribution of the indigenous plants could be considered. The book forms
an important contribution to the slowly accumulating material for a complete
geographical description of the British Islands.
United Kingdom—Scotland. Mossman.
T.R.S. Edinburgh 38 (1896): 681-756; 39 (1897): 63-208.
The Meteorology of Edinburgh. Parts i. and ii. By Robert C. Mossman. With
Plates. Presented by the Author.
This monument of laborious compilation brings together a connected series of
carefully discussed statistics of the meteorological conditions of Edinburgh for over
one hundred years. Not only are instrumental observations discussed, but such obser
vations as the number of days with rain or snow, the occurrence of thunderstorms etc
are carefully recorded.
United Kingdom—Scotland. Burns.
The Coinage of Scotland. Illustrated from the cabinet of Thomas Coats, Esq., of
Ferguslie, and other Collections. By Edward Burns, f.s.a. scot. 3 vols. Edin
burgh : A. & C. Black, 1887. Size 12£ x 10, pp. (vol. i.) xxiv. and 366; (vol. ii)
xviii. and 556 ; (vol. iii.) Plates. Presented by the Family of the late Mr. Coats.
These splendid volumes describe and figure the finest collection of Scottish coins
ever brought together, with specimens from other collections, which make the mono
graph absolutely complete.
United Kingdom—Scotland. P.7. Civil Engineers 130 (1897): 276-297. Kinipple.
Greenock Harbour. By W. R. Kinipple. With Plan.
An account of new' harbour works at Greenock, accompanied by a note on the growth
of the port.
United Kingdom—Tide Tables. Harris and Goalen
Tide Tables for the British and Irish Ports for the year 1898; also the times and
heights of High Water at full and change for the principal places on the Globe.
By Captains H. R. Harris and W. N. Goalen. London: J. D. Potter. Size
10 X 6J, pp. xi. and 262. Presented by the Hydrographer.
United Kingdom—Wales. Quarterly J. Geolog. S. 54 (1898): 119-134. Pollen.
Exploration of Ty Newydd Caves, Tremeirchion, North Wales. By the Rev.
G. C. H. Pollen, s.j. With Plan and Sections.
ASIA.
Russia—Caucasus. M€m. Caucasian Sect. Imp. Russian G.S. 19 (1897): 39-50.
Statistical information on Zakataly district, Gov. Elisabethpol, Trans-Caucasus. [In
Russian.]