DOES THE SUN RISE?-NEVER. What DOES happen and HOW it happens is clearly demonstrated by beautifully constructed Working Models, exhibiting the varied movements of the Earth and Moon. Lists Post Free, 1d. HESE MODELS show most clearly the main more elaborate Orreries give also the movements of the Planets, (1) Mercury, (2) Venus, (3) the Earth, (4) Mars, (5) Jupiter, (6) Saturn, (7) Uranus. (8) Neptune. These are all made with or wi hout clockwork, in different sizes. The list of prices includes packing to any part of the world. RELIEF GLOBES.-These can be supplied pe fectly blank for teaching the Blind, with or without the Political Divisions, and will be found valuable adjuncts to any course of teaching Physi cal Geography. They can be had 12 in.. 16 in., 26 in, and 48 in. diameter, the latter being well suited to public institutions or lecture rooms. Besites the foregoing. THOMAS LETTS can supply Globes in the leading European Languages. RELIEF MAPS-These excellent accompaniments to sound teaching are now prepared for the following countries: Africa, America, North and South, Asia, Austria, Australia, Bavaria, Eng. land, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Isle of Wight, Jerusalem, Norway and Sweden, Palestine, Russia, and Switzerland in two or three scales; al-o the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and a Capital Relief Atlas contained in a Box. ATLASES, both English and Foreign, Political, Physical, Classical, Historical, Biblical, and Astronomical. SPECIAL MAPS OF EUROPE, uniform scale, in single sheets. The whole of Europe on the scale of nine miles to the inch, in 100 sheets. The greater part of Europe in 192 sheets, on the scale of five miles to the inch, and Central Europe in 326 sheets, on the scale of three miles to the inch. ORDNANCE MAPS, on the Parish" six Inch, one inch, and Town Surveys, kept in stock and supplied as soon as published. Catalogue, 112 pp., p st free, Is. 3d. TOURISTS' MAPS of every country frequented by travellers, in various languages and scales. Lists post free on receipt of penny stamp. PHOTO PICTURES. FRITH'S CATALOGUE, contains detalls of over 6000 subjects in America, British Cathedrals, China, Constantinople, Derby, and Devonshire, Egypt, Greece, Holy Land, India, Japan, Kellarney, Lake district, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Safo, the Thames, Tyrol, and Wales, North and South. Post free on receipt of penny stamp. ALBUMS for the foregoing in Russia, Morocco, and elegant Imitations, can be supplied from £10 10s. downwards to 28. 6., and sets of the above can be made up to order of any part of the world. PHOTOGRAPHS FOR PRESENTS on birthdays, weddings, Christmas, or New Year's Day. A collection of topographic photographs, with or without an Album, forms an acceptable present, and the following popular selections are offered as likely to meet an increasing demand. GUINEA SELECTIONS OF PHOTO- Including Album, with space for subsequent addi- 21 Views of Scotland. 21 Views of Edinburgh and the Trossachs. 21 Views of the Western Higands. 21 Views of the "Emerald Isle." 21 Views of the "Garden of England." 21 Views of London. 21 Views of the Thames. 21 Views of the Albert Memorial. 21 Views of the Tower of London. 21 Views of South Wales. 21 Views of the Avon and Stratford. 21 Views of Switzerland. 21 Views of the Rhine. 2 Views of Rome. 40 Views of Egypt. Any of the above will be sent post free, without Album, to any part of the world, on receipt of Post Office Order for Twenty Shillings. Besides the foregoing popu'ar series, selections can be made up from Frith's celebrated "Panoramic" and "Universal" Series of magnificent pictures, embracing nearly every locality of tourist resort, amongst which the following may be selected as being new: Five Guinea Album of Isle of Wight: views in various sizes. Five Guinea Album of France and French Cathe- Five Guinea Album of Switzerland: Zermatt, Five Guinea Album of Italian Views, including The following important Catalogues will be forwarded post free on receipt of stamps to value annexed. 1. General, Library, and School Maps of every part of the world, and Atlases. 2. English Ordnance Maps. 112 pages, demy 8vo. Three Maps. 1s. 3d. 7. Admiralty Charts, Plans, Views, &c. 200 pp. 38. 3d. 11. Maps of the British Possessions in India and parts of Asla. 60 pp. and Map. 7d. 13. Frith's Series of Photographs in Europe, America, China, and Japan. 2d. 14. Frith's Photographs of India. 1d. 17. Frith's Photographs of Seven Churches of Asia. 1d. 22. Thompson's Phot graphs of the Pre-historic, Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, and old English Collections in the British Museum, with most interesting Memoir. 166 pages. 8d. 23. York's splendid series of Views of London and Suburbs, in various sizes, over 600 subjects. 21. Mundy's Photographic Landscapes (200) of New Zealand. 1d. 25. Native Tribes of North American Indians. 1d. 26. Landscapes from the Rocky Mountains, United States. 1d. ld. THOMAS LETTS, opposite Mansion House Station only, CITY LONDON, E.C. ORDNANCE AGENCY. THE OFFICIAL MAPS OF THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS IN INDIA, AND OF OTHER PARTS OF ASIA, Published by order of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, are to be had of the following firms, who have been specially appointed as Agents: Messrs. TRÜBNER & Co., 57 and 59, LUDGATE HILL, E.C. Mr. E. STANFORD, 6 and 7, CHARING CROSS, S.W. An Alphabetical Catalogue of the Maps on sale may be had gratis. Among the Maps are comprised the following:-The Indian Atlas; scale, 4 miles to an inch. To be completed in 177 sheets, of which 69 whole sheets (price 48. each), and 58 quarter sheets (price 1s. 6d. each), have been published. An Index Map may be had on application. Recently published, Imperial 8vo., pp. xxv. and 303, half-bound, price 108. 6d. A MEMOIR OF THE INDIAN SURVEYS. BY CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM. CONTENTS.-Indian Marine Surveys; Route Surveys; Trigonometrical Surveys; Supply of Instruments; Geological Survey; Archæological Survey; Meteorological and Tidal Observations; Astronomical Observations; Physical Geography of India, &c. Also, price 18. 6d. each, Abstracts of the Reports of the Surveys, and of other Geographical operations in India for 1869-70, 70-71, 71-72, and 72-73. In continuation of the Memoir of the Indian Surveys. PROFESSOR TENNANT'S LECTURES on ROCKS and METALLIC MINERALS, at King's College, are given on Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9 to 10 o'clock, and on Thursday evenings from 8 to 9. The lectures commence Wednesday, January 20, and will be continued to Easter. The public are admitted on paying the College Fees. PRIVATE INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY can be had at 149 Strand by those unable to attend public Lectures. During the Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer Holidays, Prof. TENNANT, F.G.S., gives a short Elementary Course of Lectures on Mineralogy, Geology, and Palæontology, adapted to a juvenile class, at his residence, 149 Strand, W.C. FOR SALE.-PROFESSOR TENNANT'S Private Collection of Fossils, Illustrative of the British Fossiliferous Deposits, the whole being stratigraphically arranged in a Cabinet with Sixty Drawers, and consisting of more than 2800 species, viz: Tertiary and comprising upwards of 8000 Specimens. 496 1610 2882 Species, The collection was originally arranged and named by the late Dr. S. P. WOODWARD, F.G.S., who also prepared a printed Catalogue of it, and many of the Specimens are figured in his 'Manual of Recent and Fossil Shells,' and in other scientific works. A large number of additions have recently been made to the Collection, and an Illustrated Catalogue prepared by Mr. William Davies, of the British Museum. Mr. Tennant had this Collection arranged to illustrate his Lectures on Geology and Palæontology at King's College. On receiving the appointment of Keeper of the extensive collection of Minerals belonging to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts he resigned the Geographical chair, which he held from 1853 to 1869. He retains the appointment, received in 1838, of Teacher of Geographical Mineralogy. II-A Collection of about 2000 MINERALS and ROCKS, with Models of Crystals, Diagrams, &c., in a painted deal Cabinet with 55 drawers and glass case on top, 9 ft. 5 in. long, 8 ft. 2 in. high, and 21 in. from back to front, removed from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. This Collection, with the Collection of Fossils above, are well adapted for illustrating fifty or sixty Lectures on MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, and PALEONTOLOGY at a first-class Educational Establishment, or would form an Instructive Geological Museum for a gentleman. Price £2000. III-TWO CABINETS, each containing 30 Drawers, with 2500 Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils. Price, One Thousand Guineas. IV.-FIRST-CLASS GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION in TWO CABINETS, each measuring 9 ft. 3 in. long, 2 ft. 4 in. wide, and 3 ft. 10 in. high; each containing 45 drawers, with a glass case on the top of each cabinet, 4 ft. 11 in. high, and 15 in. from back to front. One Cabinet is filled with 2600 Minerals and Rocks, the other with 3400 Fossils, British and Foreign, stratigraphically arranged. The Collection is carefully named, and consists of 6000 specimens, many very choice, and selected principally from the Duke of Buckingham's (Stowe sale), Marchioness of Hastings', Sir John St. Aubyn's, Drs. Buckland, Bowerbank, Mantell's, and other celebrated collections. The first Gold Nugget received from Australia, and a Gold Nugget from Ashantee, weight 5 oz., is in the collection; also a fine series of Diamonds, illustrating crystalline form and colour, from India, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia. Any person wishing to become practically acquainted with the interesting and important study of Mineralogy and Geology will find this a good opportunity to obtain an instructive and valuable Geological Museum, scientifically arranged, the specimens having been collected with care and at great expense during the last 36 years. Price £5000. V.-MAHOGANY CABINET with 26 drawers, containing upwards of 1000 specimens of Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils recently arranged. Price 150 guineas. VI.-MR. TENNANT expects shortly to have ready for sale a choice and extensive Collection of RECENT SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, in a large and well-made Cabinet of 108 Drawers, with Glass Bookcase on the top. The Cabinet was the property of the late Mrs. Mawe, and contains her private collection of Recent Shells and Minerals. Amongst the latter are some Crystals of Gold, figured in Mawe's Travels in Brazil, and supposed to be unique. The Bookcase contains many of the recent works on Geology by Buckland, Lyell, Mantell, Murchison, Phillips, and others, and 27 Vols. of the publications of the Palæontographical Society, &c. Elementary Geological Collections at 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each, and every requisite to assist those commencing the study of this interesting branch of Science, a knowledge of which affords so much pleasure to the Traveller in all parts of the World. JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist (by appointment) to Her Majesty, 149, Strand, London, W.C. [March, 1875. LOW'S LIBRARY OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. Assyrian Explorations and Discoveries. By GEORGE SMITH (of the British Museum). One Volume, demy 8vo., illustrated by Photographs and numerous Woodcut Illustrations of his recent Discoveries, price 18s. [Now ready. The Threshold of the Unknown Region. By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S., Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. Third Edition. One vol., crown 8vo., with Maps, cloth extra, 7s. 6d. A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia. With an Account of the Rescue, by his Ship, of the Survivors of the Crew of the Polaris. By Captain A. H. MARKHAM, R.N. With Introduction by Admiral SHERARD OSBORN. Crown 8vo., with 2 Maps, and nearly 50 Illustrations, cloth extra, 7s. 6d. The North German Polar Expedition, in the Year 1869-70, of the Ships" Germania" and "Hansa," under command of Captain KOLDEWEY.. Edited and Condensed by H. W. BATES, Esq., of the Royal Geographical Society, and translated by LOUIS MERCIER, MA. (Oxon). 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The Northern Star and Southern Cross: being the Personal Experiences, Impressions, and Observations of Margaretha WEPPNER in a Journey round the World. 2 vols., crown 8vo., cloth. Rotomahana; or, the Boiling Springs of New Zealand. Sixteen Photographic Views. With Descriptive Letterpress by D. L. MUNDY. Edited, with Scientific Commentary, by Dr. F. VON HOCHSTETTER. Imperial 4to., cloth extra, 42s. [Nearly ready. This Work gives a complete Account of the Geysers, or Hot Springs of New Zealand; showing also the active Volcano, Tongariro, at the head of the Great Lake, Taupo, and the end of the Geyser system. Dr. RUHLFS, Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. Adventures in Morocco and Journeys through the Oases of DRAA AND TAFILET. By Dr. GERHARD ROHLFS. Translated from the German. With an Introduction by WINWOOD READE. Demy 8vo. Map, and Portrait of the Author, cloth extra, 12s. Demy 8vo., about 500 pp., with upwards of Sixty Woodcuts from the Author's own Photographs and Sketches, cloth extra, 21s. The Straits of Malacca, Indo-china, and China; or, Ten Years' Travels, Adventures, and Residence Abroad. By J. THOMSON, F.R.G.S., Author of "Illustrations of China and its People." NOTICE.-SECOND and CHEAPER EDITION on the 15th inst. [Ready. The Marvellous Country; or, Three Years in Arizona and New LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, & SEARLE, |