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SCIENCE FOR THE YOUNG.

By JACOB ABBOTT.

_ILLUSTRATED._

4 volumes, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50 each.

I. HEAT.
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III. WATER AND LAND.
IV. FORCE.

If a mass-meeting of parents and children were to be held for the
purpose of erecting a monument to the author who has done most to
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