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13. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Illustrated by 500 wood engravings.

15. The boot and shoe manufacturers' assistant and guide. Containing a brief history of the trade. History of india-rubber and gutta-percha, and their application to the manufacture of boots and shoes. Full instructions in the art, with diagrams and scales, etc., etc. Vulcanization and sulphurization, English and American patents. With an elaborate treatise on tanning.

20. The laying of the cable, or The ocean telegraph; : being a complete and authentic narrative of the attempt to lay the cable across the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1855, and of the three Atlantic telegraph expeditions of 1857 and 1858: with a detailed account of the mechanical and scientific part of the work, as well as biographical sketches of Messrs. Cyrus W. Field, William E. Everett, and other prominent persons connected with the enterprise. Illustrated with portraits, engravings of the machinery, and scenes in the progress of the great work.