Remarks on the Recent Oceanic Explorations and the Current-Creating Action of Vis-Inertiae in the Ocean; The Winds and Their Story of the World; A Lecture on the Winds, Ocean Currents and Tides (Two Parts); Letters on the Tone of Science and the New Theory of Vis-Inertiae; Remarks on the Admiralty Current Charts; The Elements of Astronomy; An Answer to the President of the Argentine Scientific Society; Anniversary Address Delivered on the Opening of the Fifth Session of the English Literary Society; Letters on Science; The Double Standard and the National Debt; Skirmishes in the Vanguard of Science; The Pound Sterling, Its History and Character; The Standard of Value: Lord Liverpool's Oversight and its Consequence

Good copy in full leather with black title band and gilt titles. Gilt tooling on fore-edges, dentelles are decoratively stamped, but not gilt. All edges-gilt. Patterned endpapers. Edge-wear and rubbing. The title on the spine reads "Skirmishes on the Vanguard of Science," but the volume contains the following essays/lectures bound in one volume: Remarks on the Recent Oceanic Explorations and the Current-Creating Action of Vis-Inertiae in the Ocean; The Winds and Their Story of the World; A Lecture on the Winds, Ocean Currents and Tides (Two Parts); Letters on the Tone of Science and the New Theory of Vis-Inertiae; Remarks on the Admiralty Current Charts; The Elements of Astronomy; An Answer to the President of the Argentine Scientific Society; Anniversary Address Delivered on the Opening of the Fifth Session of the English Literary Society; Letters on Science; The Double Standard and the National Debt; Skirmishes in the Vanguard of Science; The Pound Sterling, Its History and Character; The Standard of Value: Lord Liverpool's Oversight and its Consequence. In addition, taped rather clumsily in the back of the volume, a small pamphlet by Jordan "Huxley on the Laws of Motion and Siemens on the Sun's Heat.".…