The instruments in which the oxigen gas of a determined quantity of air was ascertained, received the name of EUDIOMETERS, because they were considered as measurers of the purity of air. They are however more properly called OXIMETERS.

Hugh admitting that he never had, and moreover that he couldn’t read, Mrs Varden declared with much severity, that he ought to he even more ashamed of himself than before, and strongly recommended him to save up his pocket-money for the purchase of one, and further to teach himself the contents with all convenient diligence.

The problem of handling numerous taxa has been solved differently by the batologists and the taraxacologists.

With the unseeing eyes of an office-goer she looked at Hong Kong passing before her on the bright hot morning. .