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SCIENCE PRIMERS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

The necessity of commencing the teaching of Science in Schools at an

early stage of the pupil's course has now become generally recog­nized, and is enforced in all Schools under Government inspection. For the purpose of facilitating the introduction of Science Teaching into Elementary Schools, Messrs. Macmillan are now publishing a New Series of Science Primers, under the joint Editorship of Professors Huxley, Roscoe, and Balfour Stewart. The object of these Primers is to convey information in such a manner as to make it both intelligible and interesting to pupils in the most elementary classes. They are clearly printed on good paper, and illustrations are given whenever they are necessary to the proper understanding of the text. The following are just

published: —

PRIMER OF CHEMISTRY. By H. E. Roscoe, Professor of

Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. 18mo. 1s. Second

Edition.

PRIMER OF PHYSICS. By Balfour Stewart, Professor of

Natural Philosophy in Owens College, Manchester. 18mo. 1s.

Second Edition.

PRIMER OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By Archibald

Geikie, F.R.S., Murchison-Professor of Geology and Mineralogy

at Edinburgh. Second Edition. 18mo. 1s.

Everyone ought to know something about the air we breathe and the earth we live upon, and about the relations between them; and in this little work the author wishes to show what sort of questions may be put about some of the chief parts of the book of nature, and especially about two of them — the Air and the Earth. The divisions of the book are as follows: — The Shape of the Earth — Day and Night — The Air — The Circulation of Water on the Land — The Sea — The Inside of the Earth.