Loomis, Elias (1811–1889)

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1-21	June 1869 Article The Aurora Borealis or Polar Light By Elias Loomis SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Auroras; Light PDF IMAGES
34-50	June 1868 Article Shooting stars, detonating meteors, and aerolites By Elias Loomis SEE ALSO: Astronomy; Comets; Meteors PDF IMAGES
25-52	June 1856 Article Astronomical observations in the United States By Elias Loomis SEE ALSO: Astronomical instruments; Astronomical observatories; Astronomy PDF IMAGES
343-353	February 1855 Article The zone of planets between Mars and Jupiter By Elias Loomis SEE ALSO: Astronomers; Berlin; Hind, J. Russell (John Russell); Knowledge—Asteroids; Observations; de Gasparis PDF IMAGES

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787-790	October 1876 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A comic history of the United States (Book); A living faith (Book); As long as she lived, a novel (Book); Eighteen presidents and contemporaneous rulers (Book); Loomis, Elias; Lawrence, Eugene; Robinson, F.W. (Frederick William); Marsh, George Perkins; Merriam, George Spring; German political leaders (Book); Bourne, H.R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox); Helen's babies: with some account of their ways innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching, and repulsive; also, a partial record of their actions during ten days of their existence (Book); Tuttle, Herbert; Historical studies (Book); Israel Mort, overman. A story of the mine (Book); Habberton, John; Saunders, John; Hopkins, Livingston; Mediæval and modern saints and miracles (Book); The life of John Locke (Book); The mikado's empire (Book); The ministry of the Word (Book); Gladden, Washington; Taylor, William Alexander; Griffis, William Elliot; Taylor, William M. (William Mackergo); Working people and their employers (Book) PDF IMAGES
288-292	July 1869 Editor's book table/Review Editor's book table SEE ALSO: Cazin, Achille Auguste; Anne Séverin (Book); Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown; Breaking a butterfly (Book); Barnard, Charles; Lever, Charles James; Elements of astronomy (Book); Loomis, Elias; Rich, Elihu; Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Harvey, Ellwood; Farm implements and farm machinery, and the principles of their construction and use: with simple and practical explanations of the laws of motion and force as applied on the farm (Book); Farming by inches (Book); Lawrence, George Alfred; Thomas, J.J. (John Jacob); Walsh, John Henry; Parker, Joseph; Juliette; or, Now and forever (Book); Fulton, Justin D. (Justin Dewey); Leslie, Madeline; Walworth, Mansfield Tracy; Men, women, and ghosts (Book); Craven, Augustus, Mme.; Parsons on the rose (Book); Allen, Richard Lamb; McClure, Robert; Parsons, Samuel Bowne; Springdale Abbey (Book); Studies in general science (Book); That boy of Norcott's (Book); The horse, in the stable and the field (Book); The phenomena and the laws of heat (Book); The true woman: a series of discourses: to which is added woman vs. ballot (Book); Typhaine's abbey; a tale of the twelfth century (Book); Warwick. A novel (Book); Gobineau, Arthur, comte de PDF IMAGES
424-425	August 1868 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A treatise on meteorology: with a collection of meteorological tables (Book); Loomis, Elias; History of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (Book); In the school-room (Book); Macé, Jean; Kirk, John Foster; Hart, John S. (John Seely); Helps, Arthur, Sir; The history of a mouthful of bread; and its effect on the organization of men and animals (Book); The servants of the stomach (Book); The Spanish conquest in America: and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies (Book) PDF IMAGES
395-397	August 1865 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A smaller history of Rome, from the earliest times to the establishment of the empire (Book); A treatise on astronomy (Book); Brackett, Albert G. (Albert Gallatin); Loomis, Elias; Moore, Frank; Nichols, George Ward; Docharty, Gerardus Beekman; History of the United States Cavalry from the formation of the Federal Government to the 1st of June 1863 (Book); Draper, John William; Martell; O mother dear, Jerusalem. The old hymn, its origin and genealogy (Book); Smith, William, Sir; The elements of analytic geometry, and of the differential and integral calculus (Book); The rebellion record: a diary of American events (Book); The story of the great march (Book); Thoughts on the future civil policy of America (Book); Prime, William Cowper PDF IMAGES
416-419	August 1863 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A critical history of free thought in reference to the Christian religion (Book); Dutton, A.D.T. (Adeline Dutton Train); A tale of two cities (Book); Farrar, Adam Storey; At odds (Book); Tautphoeus, Jemima Montgomery, Baroness; Dickens, Charles; Laboulaye, Edouard; Elements of arithmetic (Book); Loomis, Elias; Faith Gartney's girlhood (Book); Kemble, Fanny; Harper's hand-book for travelers in Europe and the East (Book); Journal of a residence on a Georgia plantation in 1838-1839 (Book); Liebig, Justus Freiherr von; Willson, Marcius; McIntosh, Maria J. (Maria Jane); Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise); Memoir of the life and character of the late Hon. Theo. Frelinghuysen, LL. D. (Book); Wood, Henry, Mrs.; Natural philosophy (Book); Paris in America (Book); Chambers, Talbot W. (Talbot Wilson); The earl's heirs (Book); The natural laws of husbandry (Book); Fetridge, W. Pembroke (William Pembroke); Willson's primary speller. A simple and progressive course of lessons in spelling, with reading and dictation exercises, and the elements of oral and written compositions (Book); Hooker, Worthington PDF IMAGES
831-835	November 1858 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A journey due North; being notes of a residence in Russia (Book); Stevens, Abel; Seymour, Charles C.B.; Wells, David Ames; Elements of natural philosophy designed for academies and high schools (Book); Loomis, Elias; Wayland, Francis; Sala, George Augustus; Todd, John; Natural philosophy (Book); Self-made men (Book); Sermons to the churches (Book) PDF IMAGES
554-556	September 1856 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A memorial of the life and character of John W. Francis, Jr. (Book); Atlas of the world (Book); Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron; Loomis, Elias; Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth); Tucker, George; Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore); Beckwourth, James Pierson; Lays of ancient Rome (Book); Religion in America (Book); Baird, Robert; Bonner, T.D. (Thomas D.); The history of the United States (Book); The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth, mountaineer, scout, and pioneer, and chief of the Crow nation of Indians. With illustrations. Written from his own dictation (Book); The recent progress of astronomy, especially in the United States (Book) PDF IMAGES
857-860	May 1855 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A long look ahead; or, the first stroke and the last (Book); Roe, A.S. (Azel Stevens); An introduction to practical astronomy: with a collection of astronomical tables (Book); Botany of the southern states. In two parts (Book); Chesebro', Caroline; Peterson, Charles J. (Charles Jacobs); Cosas de España; or, going to Madrid via Barcelona (Book); Loomis, Elias; Foster's first principles of chemistry (Book); Hollister, G.H. (Gideon Hiram); Mackie, J. Milton (John Milton); Abbott, Jacob; Darby, John; Kate Aylesford. A story of the refugees (Book); Madden, Richard Robert; Prime, Samuel Irenæus; The history of Connecticut, from the first settlement of the colony to the adoption of the present constitution (Book); The literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (Book); Travels in Europe and the East: a year in England, Scotland, Ireland (Book); Foster, W. PDF IMAGES
568-570	September 1851 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Mills, Abraham; Lamartine, Alphonse de; Arthur Conway; or, scenes in the tropics (Book); Beecher, Catharine Esther; Anthon, Charles; Milman, E.A. (Edward Augustus); Elements of algebra (Book); Loomis, Elias; Episodes of insect life (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Curtis, George Ticknor; Budgen, L.M.; Memoir of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, late rector of Watton, Herts. (Book); Hildreth, Richard; Baird, Robert; Roman antiquities (Book); Birks, T.R. (Thomas Rawson); The Christian retrospect and register (Book); The fate (Book); The history of the United States of America, from the discovery of the continent to the organization of government under the federal constitution (Book); The inventor's manual of legal principles, and guide to the patent office (Book); The literature and the literary men of Great Britain and Ireland (Book); The stone-mason of Saint Point (Book); The true remedy for the wrongs of woman; with a history of an enterprise having that for its object (Book); Travels and adventures in Mexico (Book); Carpenter, William W. PDF IMAGES
709-712	April 1851 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Duganne, A.J.H. (Augustine Joseph Hickey); Marsh-Caldwell, Anne; California and Oregon; or, sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way (Book); Whipple, Edwin Percy; Elements of analytical geometry and of the differential and integral calculus (Book); Loomis, Elias; Essays and reviews (Book); Hollister, G.H. (Gideon Hiram); Abbott, Jacob; Blunt, Joseph; Clarke, Mary Cowden; Mount Hope, or, Philip, king of the Wampanoags (Book); Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Porter, Noah; Parnassus in pillory. A satire (Book); Poetry from the Waverly novels (Book); Scott, Walter, Sir; The city of the silent: a poem (Book); The educational systems of the Puritans and Jesuits compared. A premium essay, written for “The Society for the promotion of collegiate and theological education at the West,” (Book); The Franconia stories (Book); The girlhood of Shakespeare's heroines (Book); The shipmaster's assistant, and commercial digest: containing information necessary for merchants, owners, and masters of ships (Book); Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor); Time the avenger (Book); Twice-told tales (Book); Simms, William Gilmore PDF IMAGES
713-718	October 1850 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Adelaide Lindsay (Book); Aesop's fables (Book); Marsh-Caldwell, Anne; March, Charles W. (Charles Wainwright); Domestic history of the American Revolution (Book); Johnson, E.A. (Ebenezer Alfred); Benger, E. (Elizabeth); Ellet, E.F. (Elizabeth Fries); Echoes of the universe: from the world of matter and the world of spirit (Book); Everett, Edward; Robinson, Edward; Loomis, Elias; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Geometry; Nicholson, George W.S.; Greek and English lexicon (Book); Rathbone, H.M. (Hannah Mary); Christmas, Henry; Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis); Mayhew, Ira; Cooper, James Fenimore; Wynne, James; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Whittier, John Greenleaf; Lives of eminent literary and scientific men of America (Book); Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Mathematical course (Book); Memoirs of life of Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII (Book); Mental hygiene (Book); New elements of geometry (Book); Orations and speeches on various occasions (Book); Poems of the heart (Book); Popular education; for the use of parents and teachers, and for young persons of both sexes (Book); Reminiscences of congress (Book); Pell, Robert Conger; Southey, Robert; Rural hours. By a lady (Book); Smith, Seba; Select orations of M. Tullius Cicero (Book); Sermon occasioned by the death of President Taylor; delivered at the Masonic hall, Cincinnati, Aug. 1, 1850 (Book); So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby, as relates to her domestic history, and to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First (Book); Songs of labor, and other poems (Book); Cooper, Susan Fenimore; Stockton, T.H. (Thomas Hewlings); Donnelly, T.L.; The Berber; or, the mountaineer of the Atlas. A tale of Morocco (Book); The companion. After-dinner table-talk (Book); The leatherstocking tales (Book); The lily and the totem, or, the Huguenots in Florida. A series of sketches, picturesque and historical, of the colonies of Coligni, in North America. 1562-1570 (Book); The mariner's vision (Book); The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Book); The recent progress of astronomy, especially in the United States (Book); The relations of science and religion. The Morse lecture, 1880, connected with the Union Theological Seminary, New York (Book); The works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., first pastor of the church in Bethlem, Conn., with a memoir of his life and character (Book); Truth and poetry, from my own life, or the autobiography of Goethe (Book); Edwards, Tryon; Alcott, William A. (William Andrus); Simms, William Gilmore; Mayo, William Starbuck; Sweetser, William PDF IMAGES

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