Proceedings, Ninth Meeting, Providence, August 1855 de American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lovering, Joseph, editor

Cambridge, Joseph Lovering; NY, Putnam, 1856. Periodical. xlvi, 311 p., charts, folding plates, 23.5 cm. Includes Benjamin Peirce on mathematics; Peters, Contributions to Atmospherology of the Sun; Olmsted, Notes on Wilmington Gunpowder Explosion; Brocklesby, Frozen Wells of Owego; Kent, Description of a New Apparatus for separating Gold & other Precious Metals from Foreign Substances; Smith, Re-Examination of American Minerals; Whitney, On Occurrence of Ores of Iron in the Azoic System; Blake, Notes upon the Grove of "Mammoth Trees" in Calaveras County, California; Hilgard, Contributions to the Physiology of Sight; Hunt, On the Use of Salt-marsh Sods for facing Steep Slopes of Parapets, Terraces, etc. Tan printed wraps soiled, spine ends chipped; part unopened; VG. Stock#33526.