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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume II: Science and Medicine -- Part 1 Practice -- 1.1 Natural philosophy -- 1 George Adams, 'On the Nature and Properties of Air' -- 1.2 Astronomy and navigation -- 2 Neville Maskelyne, 'Draft instructions for John Crosley to go on a voyage to New Holland on board HMS Investigator' -- 3 John Frederick William Herschel, 'Of the Nature of Astronomical Instruments and Observations in General' -- 4 George Biddell Airy, 'Astronomy' -- 1.3 Meteorology -- 5 Luke Howard, 'Of the Barometer' -- 6 John Frederick William Herschel, 'Of Meteorological Instruments -- and first, of the Barometer and its attached Thermometer' -- 7 Robert H. Scott, 'Kew Marine Barometer' -- 1.4 Geography and exploration -- 8 Francis Galton, 'Letter Addressed by Francis Galton, Esq., to the Secretary', in 'Hints to Travellers', Journal of the Royal Geographical Society -- 9 William Ford Stanley, 'Packing of Instruments', in Surveying and Levelling Instruments Theoretically and Practically Described -- 1.5 Metrology -- 10 Charles Piazzi Smyth, 'Instrumentals', in Life and Work at the Great Pyramid -- 1.6 Natural history -- 11 Charles Darwin, 'Geology' -- 12 Richard Owen, 'Zoology' -- 13 William Hooker, 'Botany' -- 14 J. C. Prichard, 'Ethnology' -- 1.7 Microscopy -- 15 Charles R. Goring, 'On Mr. Tulley's thick aplanatic object-glasses, for diverging rays -- with an account of a few microscopic test objects' -- 16 Jabez Hogg, 'Introduction', in The Microscope -- 17 Charles Darwin, 'On the use of the microscope on board ship' -- 1.8 Medicine -- 18 René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, 'Introduction', and John Forbes, 'Explanation of the Plates', in A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest, and on Mediate Auscultation -- 19 D. M. Cammann, 'An Historical Sketch of the Stethoscope'.