Annuaire Scientifique, publie par . . .annee.

Paris:: Charpentier, 1863., 1863. At head of title: Les progres des sciences . . . 6 volumes. 12mo. Approx. 400 pp. each. Figs. Original yellow printed wrappers; lightly worn edges, dust-soiling to covers. Very good. RARE. Includes a paper on the 1862 comet. Deherain was the doctoral advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Henri Moissan (1906 for Chemistry). This scientific journal offers contributions on astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, zoology, mechanics, applied chemistry & physics, and agriculture. Among the papers are: Guillemin, La Seconde comete de 1862, [and] Les petites planetes et les cartes ecliptiques (p.37), Saint-Edme, Etude sur les Courants d'induction (p.50+), etc. Among the names mentioned are Ampere, Arago, Bergmann, Berthelot, Berzelius, Boyle, Bunsen, Cassini, Davy, Deville, Dumas, Euler, Faraday, Foucault, Galvani, Gay-Lussac, Halley, Humboldt, Huygens, Joule, Lavoisier, Leblanc, Pasteur, Priestley, Schwann, Wurtz, etc. Extra postage is likely.