The Galaxy. A Magazine Of Entertaining Reading. Vol. XX. June, 1875 To January, 1876. [Fatal balloon ascent, much travel in Utah, U.S. mining, pre-Columbus discovery of America, etc.]

by Church, W.C. and F.B. (editors)

1st edition

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Book description: N.Y., , 1876. 1st edition. Orig. 3/4 gilt calf, hubbed spine, gilt lettering. Extremely nice copy inside & out. VG. Thick 8vo. Publ. by Sheldon & Company, 677 Broadway.Approx. 6 x 9 1/2 in. Dbl. columns, small print. Wealth of fiction, short stories, newly publ. book reviews & poetry. Also notable non-fiction including interesting articles about or text on Alexandre Dumas, "Can The Voyage To Europe Be Shortened?", "The Napoleonic Legend", 7pp. "English Lecturers In America", 10pp. "Bunker Hill" (the 100th anniversary), "Scientific Miscellany" section w/ over 1/2 pg. on evidences of upheavals in Alaska, a pg. on an interrrupted volcanic eruption of Mt. Aetna, nearly a pg. on a fatal balloon ascent from Paris in April 1875, forecasting the end of epidemics, a town in Arkansas rich in minerals, The National Academy Of Sciences meeting, latest developments from experiments in meteorology by Professor Loomis, 1 1/2 columns on American production of metals, also geological news, atronomy, physics experiments. Plus an article on President Grant & his appointment to the Supreme Court & other matters, such as Civil Service reform, visiting London in June, under "Scientific Miscellany" preparation for an English Arctic expedition, over 1 pg. on the natural constituents of wine, another column on the fatal Parisian balloon ascent and its sole survivor, 10pp. of travel through Utah by John Codman, continuing excerpts from General Sherman's Memoirs ( issue to issue), 11pp. "Summer Days In London", a new poem of Tennyson discussed, the deficiency of trained geologists in America (over 1 pg.) a new self-registering thermometer, 6 1/2pp. continuation of article "Through Utah", 10pp. article on pre-Columbus claims of discovering America, 10pp. on English pronounciation, a meeting of the Association For The Advancement Of Science, a page on ethnology & human remains found in burial mounds in Iowa on the bank of the Mississsippi River, a column on the value of the Black Hills, analysis of rocks for phosphoric acid by Dr. Hayes, 11pp. on "The London Marriage Market", another 13pp. continuing article "Through Utah", 5pp,. on C.W. battle of Chickamauga, over 1/2 pg. on earthquake in New York City in Dec. 1874, 1/2 pg. on volcanic eruption in Iceland, over 1/2 pg. on bonanza of the Comstock veins, & over 1/2 pg. on "Extractions Of Minute Quantities Of Siver From Ores", over 11pp. on "The Marriage Question", another over 9pp. travels through Utah, 1 1/2 pp. on cholera epidemic of 1873, much more.

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