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Excerpt from Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1873 The present volume is the third of a series in which it is proposed to present, year by year, the principal dis coveries in the various branches of science, theoretical and applied - the selection of subjects being made, primarily, on the ground of their supposed importance, as marking the stages of scientific advancement; and, secondarily, as being of interest to the general reader. A general sum mary of progress for the year in the different departments precedes the volume, and is intended to give a connected and systematic Sketch of the more important announce ments, and usually contains much matter not presented in the body of the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.