No. XII.

Common Minerals and Rocks.

BY W. O. CROSBY, Professor of Mineralogy in the Mass. Inst. of Technology. Illustrated with 40 figures. 200 pages. Price, paper, 40 cents. Cloth, 60 cents. This includes a brief and simple account of the principal geological agencies, descriptions of all the more common and important varieties of minerals and rocks, and an explanation of the leading kinds of structure occurring in rocks, such as stratification, etc.

It is not merely a guide to teachers, but also a simple and logical presentation of the leading facts and principles of structural geology. It is well adapted for class use, and is already used in many schools. Specimens to Illustrate, from 50 cents to $10.00.

No. XIII. First Lessons in Minerals.

BY ELLEN H. RICHARDS, Instructor in Mineralogy, Mass. Inst. of Technology. Paper. 50 pages. Price, io cents. A valuable introduction to Guide No. XII.

These lessons were first worked out with three successive classes of children, from six to eight years old, just out of the Kindergarten, and then given to classes in two public schools in the city of Boston. No. XIV. Hints for Teachers of Physiology.

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BY H. P. BOWDITCH, M. D., Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School. Paper. 58 pages. Price, 20 cents.

N this little book an attempt has been made to show how a teacher may supplement his text-book instruction by means of simple observations, and experiments on living bodies or on organic material, thus imparting to his pupils a knowledge of the foundation on which Physiology rests, and at the same time bringing the impressions made on the senses to aid the memory in retaining the facts communicated in a purely didactic way.

No. XV. Observation Lessons on Common Min

erals. BY HENRY LINCOLN CLAPP, Master of the George Putnam School, Boston. Paper. 80 pages. Price, 30 cents.

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HIS little book is not an epitome of any work on mineralogy, nor simply a collection of suggestions, but a specific, practical guide for the use of the ordinary teacher. As it contains many transcripts of

the pupils' records of their own personal observations, it shows what can be done by ordinary pupils under ordinary circumstances.

By following the plan detailed, the teacher becomes simply a director of the pupil's energies, thus inducing and cultivating the scientific habit of thinking and working. The lessons will lead the pupils to see the truth, state it, and at the same time to become practically acquainted with common minerals, and to make collections of their own.

The errors in language which result from simply reading books, or hearing stories told, can be detected and remedied by carrving out the design of these lessons.

The lessons can be given during the ordinary school year of forty weeks, by devoting one hour each week to the work.

A list of simple apparatus needed, names of reference books, information on additional minerals, and a chapter on methods of forming a mineralogical cabinet, are added.

Specimens to Illustrate, from 50 cents to $10.00.

Asa Gray, late Prof. of Natural History, Harvard Univ.: Those who Lave not had the advantage of the course of lectures should study these primers thoroughly, and follow the directions they give.

Albert H. Tuttle, Prof. of Zoology, Ohio State Univ., Columbus: I have a high esteem for the whole series.

Dr. Wm. T. Harris: I commend the series for the kind of work which I think ought to be done in the lower grades.

D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers,

BOSTON, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully, and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm, did upon the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-eight [o. s.], present unto their Majesties, then called and known by the names and style of William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, being present in their proper persons, a certain Declaration in writing, made by the said Lords and Commons, in the words following, viz.:

"Whereas the late King James II., by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom:

1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution of laws, without consent of Parliament.

2. By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power.

3. By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the Great Seal for erecting a court, called the Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes.

4. By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.

5. By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace, without consent of Parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law.

6. By causing several good subjects, being Protestants, to

be disarmed, at the same time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to law.

7. By violating the freedom of election of members to serve in Parliament.

8. By prosecutions in the Court of King's Bench for matters and causes cognisable only in Parliament, and by divers other arbitrary and illegal causes.

9. And whereas of late years, partial, corrupt, and unqualified persons have been returned, and served on juries in trials, and particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason, which were not freeholders.

10. And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.

II. And excessive fines have been imposed; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.

12. And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied.

All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes, and freedom of this realm.

And whereas the said late King James II. having abdicated the government, and the throne being thereby vacant, his Highness the Prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious instrument of delivering this kingdom from Popery and arbitrary power) did (by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and divers principal persons of the Commons) cause letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, being Protestants, and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs, and cinque ports, for the choosing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster upon the two-and-twentieth day of January, in this year One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Eight, in order to such an establishment, as that their religion, laws, and liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted; upon which letters elections have been accordingly made.

And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, pursuant to their respective letters and elections, being now assembled in a full and free representation of this

nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare :

1. That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal.

2.

That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.

3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.

4. That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence and prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.

5. That it is the right of the subjects to petition the King, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.

6. That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law.

7. That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law.

8. That election of members of Parliament ought to be free.

9. That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.

10. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

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11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders.

12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void.

13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the