How to Form a Library Part 6

---- To this list of Contemporary Biography may be added the Indexes of Obituary Notices published by the Index Society.

(_Bishops._)--Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, or a Calendar of the princ.i.p.al Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the chief officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, from the earliest time to the year 1715. Compiled by John Le Neve. Corrected and continued from 1715 to the present time by T. Duffus Hardy. Oxford, 1854. 3 vols. 8vo.

---- Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae. The Succession of the Prelates and Members of Cathedral Bodies in Ireland. By Henry Cotton, D.C.L. Dublin, 1847-60. 5 vols. 8vo.

(_Lawyers._)--Lives of the Chief Justices of England. By John Lord Campbell. Second edition. London, 1858. 3 vols.

8vo.

---- Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England. By John Lord Campbell. Fourth edition.

London, 1856. 10 vols. Sm. 8vo.

(_Scientific Men._)--Poggendorff (J.C.).

Biographisch-Literarisches Handworterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, enthaltend Nachweisungen uber Lebensverhaltnisse und Leistungen von Mathematikern, Astronomen, Physikern, Chemikern, Mineralogen, Geologen u.s.w. aller Volker und Zeiten. Leipzig, 1863. Roy. 8vo.

(_Cambridge._)--Athenae Cantabrigienses. By Charles Henry Cooper, F.S.A., and Thompson Cooper. Cambridge, 1858-61.

Vol. I. 1500-1585. Vol. II. 1586-1609. 8vo.

---- Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1760-1856. Cura Josephi Romilly, A.M. Cantabrigiae, 1856.

---- Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1800-1884. Cura Henrici Richardo Luard, S.T.P. Cantabrigiae, 1884.

(_Oxford._)--Athenae and Fasti Oxonienses. By Ant. a Wood.

New edition, with Notes, Additions, and Continuation by the Rev. Dr. P. Bliss. 4 vols. 4to. 1813-20.

---- Catalogue of all Graduates in the University of Oxford, 1659-1850. Oxford, 1851. 8vo.

(_Dublin._)--A Catalogue of Graduates who have proceeded to degrees in the University of Dublin from the earliest recorded Commencements to July, 1866, with Supplement to December 16, 1868. Dublin, 1869. 8vo. Vol. II. 1868-1883.

Dublin, 1884. 8vo.

(_Eton._)--Alumni Etonenses, or a Catalogue of the Provosts and Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, from the Foundation in 1443 to the Year 1797. By Thomas Harwood. Birmingham, 1797. 4to.

(_Westminster._)--The List of the Queen's Scholars of St.

Peter's College, Westminster, admitted on that Foundation since 1663, and of such as have been thence elected to Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, from the Foundation by Queen Elizabeth, 1561, to the present time. Collected by Joseph Welch. A new edition ... by an old King's Scholar. London, 1852. Roy. 8vo.

_Botany._--An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs; being the Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannic.u.m abridged.... By J.C.

Loudon. London, 1842. 8vo.

---- Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants ... New edition corrected to the present time. Edited by Mrs. Loudon.

London, 1855. 8vo.

---- The Vegetable Kingdom; or the structure, cla.s.sification and uses of plants, ill.u.s.trated upon the natural system. By John Lindley, Ph.D., F.R.S. Third edition. London, 1853.

8vo.

---- International Dictionary of Plants in Latin, German, English and French, for Botanists, and especially Horticulturists, Agriculturists, Students of Forestry and Pharmaceutists, by Dr. William Ulrich. Leipzig, 1872. 8vo.

_Botany._--Topographical Botany: being Local and Personal Records towards shewing the distribution of British Plants traced through 112 counties and vice-counties of England, Wales and Scotland. By Hewett Cottrell Watson. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. London, 1883. 8vo.

The need of an authoritative list of Botanical names must be frequently felt by a large number of writers, those who have but little knowledge of the science even more than Botanists themselves. The following work will be found useful for this purpose, but there is reason to hope that a much larger and more exhaustive list will shortly be published, as Mr.

Daydon Jackson, Secretary of the Linnean Society, is, we believe, now engaged upon such a work. "Nomenclator Botanicus seu Synonymia Plantarum Universalis.... Autore Ernesto Theoph. Steudel; editio secunda, Stuttgartiae et Tubingae, 1841." Royal 8vo.

_Cards._--Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards. By William Andrew Chatto. London, 1848.

8vo.

---- A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and other Cards in the British Museum, accompanied by a Concise General History of the Subject, and Remarks on Cards of Divination and of a Politico-Historical Character. By William Hughes Willshire, M.D. Printed by order of the Trustees, 1876. Royal 8vo.

_Chemistry._--A Dictionary of Chemistry and the allied Branches of other Sciences, founded on that of the late Dr.

Ure. By Henry Watts. 1863-68. 5 vols. 8vo. Supplement, 1872.

Second Supplement, 1879. Third Supplement, 1879-81. 2 vols.

---- Handbook of Modern Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic, for the use of Students. By Charles Meymott Tidy, M.B., F.C.S. London, 1878. 8vo.

---- Handbook of Chemistry. By L. Gmelin. Trans. by H.

Watts. London, 1848-67. 17 vols. 8vo.

---- Industrial Chemistry, based upon the German edition of Payen's "Precis de Chimie Industrielle," edited by B.H.

Paul. London, 1878.

---- A Treatise on Chemistry. By [Sir] H.E. Roscoe and C.

Schorlemmer. London. 8vo.

_Coins._--A Numismatic Manual. By John Yonge Akerman, F.S.A.

London, 1840. 8vo.

---- The Silver Coins of England arranged and described by E. Hawkins. London, 1841. 8vo.

---- The Gold Coins of England arranged and described, being a sequel to Mr. Hawkins's Silver Coins of England, by his grandson, Robert Lloyd Kenyon. London, 1880. 8vo.

_Commerce._--A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. By the late J.R. McCulloch. Latest edition by A.J. Wilson. London, 1882. 8vo.

---- History of British Commerce, 1763-1870. By Leone Levi.

London, 1872. 8vo.

_Concordances._

_Aristophanes._--A Complete Concordance to the Comedies and Fragments of Aristophanes. By Henry Dunbar, M.D. Oxford, 1883. 4to.

_Bible._--A complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. By Alexander Cruden, M.A.

London, 1737. 4to. Second edition 1761, third edition 1769; this is the last corrected by the author. Most of the Concordances published since are founded upon Cruden.

---- An a.n.a.lytical Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, or the Bible presented under distinct and cla.s.sified heads of topics. Edited by John Eadie, D.D., LL.D. London and Glasgow, 1856. 8vo.

_Homer._--A Complete Concordance to the Iliad of Homer. By Guy Lushington Prendergast. London, 1875. 4to.

---- A Complete Concordance to the Odyssey and Hymns of Homer, to which is added a Concordance to the parallel pa.s.sages in the Iliad, Odyssey and Hymns. By Henry Dunbar, M.D. Oxford, 1880. 4to.