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Excerpt from Annual of Scientific Discovery, or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, for 1852: Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, &C

The present number constitutes the third yearly volume of the Annual of Scientific Discovery. The Editor, in its preparation, has selected from the great mass of yearly accumulative matter, such subjects as -to him seem most important and interesting. The selection and arrangement of the articles have also been made with a special view of illustrating the progress of natural and physical science, in all their departments, from. Year to year, each volume taking up the history and narration as dropped in the preceding one, in such a way, that a complete series of the work shall present, as nearly as possible, a complete scientific history, not only of each year, but also of the whole time elapsed since the publication of the first volume.

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