The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 3James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1863 |
Contents
iv | 56 |
Illustration By JOHN GAMGEE Principal of the New Veterinary | 141 |
THE RAILWAY TUNNEL THROUGH THE ALPS With Tinted Illustration | 164 |
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