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The Re-Issue has a SYNOPTIC TABLE OF CONTENTS, which was not published in the First Edition. In Five large Quarto Volumes, averaging 1000 pages each, with Maps. FOURTH DIVISION OF THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA. THE LEXICON, OR ALPHABETICAL MISCELLANY. The Contents of this Division are described at page 10 of this Prospectus. In Fourteen large Quarto Volumes, averaging 870 pages each, with an Atlas, and a Series of Engravings comprehending 72 Quarto Plates, 29 Folio Plates, and 3 whole Sheet Plates. GENERAL INDEX to the ENCYCLOPÆDIA, One Volume, 4to. Price in Cloth, 21s.; Half-Russia, 26s.; half-Morocco, 28s. The ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBERS to this work, who have not yet completed their Sets, have still the opportunity of doing so-but the sale of the Original Parts will very shortly be discontinued. LONDON: FRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET. HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. SECOND DIVISION: CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES, COMPREHENDING THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM A.D 100 TO A.D. 1100, A PERIOD OF A THOUSAND YEARS, With Biographies of the Ecclesiastical Writers and Heretics of that Period. Contributors. THE REV. J. B. S. CARWITHIN, B.D. THE REV. RICHARD GARNETT. THE REV. JAMES AMIRAUX JEREMIE, M.A., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Classical Professor in Haileybury College. HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THIRD DIVISION: THE RISE, ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE REFORMATION, COMPREHENDING THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM A.D. 1100 TO THE PRESENT TIME, With Biographies of the Ecclesiastical Writers and Heretics of the Period. Contributors. THE REV. J. C. CROSSTHWAITE. THE REV. J. G. DOWLING, M.A. R. D. HAMPDEN, D. D., BISHOP OF HEREFORD. THE REV. A. LYALL, M.A. THE REV. J. E. RIDDELL, M.A. THE REV. HENRY JOHN ROSE, B.D. Each Division will be comprised in One Volume, Crown 8vo, similar to the Volume containing the First Division. Just Published, in One Volume Crown octavo, 664 pages, very closely printed, PRICE 12s. 6d. BOUND IN CLOTH, A MANUAL OF BOTANY, BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE, PHYSIOLOGY, AND CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS, BY JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR, M.D., F.L.S., F.R.S.E. Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Edinburgh, ILLUSTRATED BY 831 WOOD ENGRAVINGS. Contents. PART 1.-VEGETABLE ANATOMY, ORGANOGRAPHY, AND PHYSIOLOGY. Chap. 1. Elementary Organs, or Vegetable Tissues a) Cellular Tissue; b) Vascular Tissue. Chap. 2. Compound Organs formed by the Tissues. a) Organs of Nutrition or Vegetation; b) General View of the Functions of the Nutritive Organs; c) Organs of Reproduction; d) Some General Phenomena connected with Vegetation. PART 2.-SYSTEMATIC BOTANY, TAXONOMY, OR THE CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS. Chap. 1. Systems of Classification. Chap. 2. Arrangement and Characters of the Classes and Natural Orders. Section 1. Phanerogamous Plants. Class 1, Dicotyledones or Exogeæ; Class 2, Monocotyledones or Endogenæ. Section 2. Cryptogamous Plants. Class 3, Acotyledones. PART 3.-GEOGRAPHICAL BOTANY, OR THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS OVER THE GLOBE. PART 4.-FOSSIL BOTANY. APPENDIX.-1, On the Use of the Microscope in Botanical Researches. 2, On Collecting and Examining Plants, and on the Formation of a Herbarium. INDEX AND GLOSSARY. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN JOSEPH GRIFFIN AND CO. 53 BAKER-STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE; AND RICHARD GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW. 1849. ENCYCLOPEDIA METROPOLITANA: OR, System of Unibersal Knowledge : ON A METHODICAL PLAN PROJECTED BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Third Division. Bistory and Biography. Hinds (Lam.) D.D. HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. First Division: THE RISE AND EARLY PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY, A.D 1 TO A.D. 167. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN JOSEPH GRIFFIN & CO. 53 BAKER-STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE; AND RICHARD GRIFFIN & CO. GLASGOW. 110. j. 180. |