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Excerpt from The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1874 The first volume of this work was produced in 1839. It was intended to display a faithful record of such results of Scientific enquiry during the past twelve months, as bear upon the Arts of Life and Society, and tend to the advancement of Useful Knowledge, and the great success which the book immediately achieved, proved that it supplied a public want. The greatly increasing interest taken in the progress of Science by all classes of Society, has induced the proprietors of the Year Book of Facts to issue the present volume in a modified form, and at a reduced price. The general character of the work is as yet but slightly altered. I hope, in future years, by judicious changes, to render it still more worthy of its established reputation. 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.