DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE Ved by the European Science Translating Society, a translation of the Library of Useful Knowledge publication on that subject. In 1836, Monsieur Guerin, the Catholic Cure of Chandernagar, published a list of all the Solar and lunar eclipses from I 836 to I 944. I84. Charu pat, pot. I, by Akhaykumar l Dut, T. 1'., 1853, pp. IO4, 8 as. Roz. & Co., with miscellaneous information on knowledge, and its pleasures, on philanthrophy, the passions, treats of the following subjects: volcanoes, the walrus, beaver, Russian mice, polypus, laws of vegetation, attraction, atoms, fire-flies of South America, Ourang outang, cataract, boiling springs with wood cuts of Vesuvius, the river horse, beaver, flowers, fire-fly, Ourang-Outang. I85. Charu Pat. pt, 2, T. P., pp. IO2, 8 as. S53. Be-ides Iitcrature and Ethics, treats of Corals, Icebergs, Balloons, the Compass, the Moon, - Solar Systcm, Thermomcter, Comets.
- 186. (A. 13) CHEMISTRY, MACKS Kimiya Videa Sar, Roz. δ. Oο, 2 Rs. 8 a.s., pp. 337. Treats of chemical forces, caloric, light, clectricity, chemical substances, oxygen. chlorine, bromine, hydrogen, nitrogen. Sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, boron, Selenium, the steam engine : designed to have been the first of a series of treatises in Bengali on scientific subjects. The author was an able lengali scholar.
187. EXPERIMENTS IN SCIENCE, Kautuk Tarangini, by Bh. M. Mittra, 1852, Roz. & Co., I Re. 2 as., pp. 96, 2nd cd. A drawing of thc steam cngine, with a very good account of it, and 95 entertaining and useful chemical experiments such as on metals, invisible ink, putting an egg into a small mouthed bottle, arithmetical puzzles, balloon making, eating fire, making paper that will not ignite : the cxperiments are simple, not cxpensive, and the practising them would interest village people much, and free their minds from many fears. A copy of this book ouht to be in cvery School. 188. MECHANICS, Padartha Videa, T. o., PP, 5°. 8 as..., gives a number of diagrams in illustration, treats of the Common qualities of matter : : action, re-action: clastility : divisibility gravity: motion and its different kinds anical powers: levers of various of matter, attraction : circular motion : mech 8 . . . . . sful informati Oln. l. il I kinds :-requires simplifying, but contains much useful il 33, the Useful Knowledge Society's 1utOٹللCتنظH to Mechanics was translated by
