202 Notices respecting New Books. 



ance, and of placing the whole transaction above even .the 

 suspicion of favouritism or partiality, the late President was 

 induced to request the aid of two individuals, as highly distin- 

 guished by their abilities and by their learning as by the emi- 

 nent stations which they hold in the hierarchy of the country, 

 where able and intrepid champions have never been wanting 

 to vindicate the natural and moral attributes of the Divinity 

 against the equally dangerous attacks of infidelity, fanaticism, 

 and imposture. The two distinguished prelates, the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, most readily 

 condescended to afford their assistance; and after much de- 

 liberation, and with the concurrence of the Noble Lord above 

 alluded to, the work has been placed in the hands of the fol- 

 lowing eight gentlemen : 



The Rev. William Whewell, M.A. F.R.S., Fellow of Tri- 

 nity College, and Professor of Mineralogy in the University 

 of Cambridge. 



The Rev. John Thomas Chalmers, Professor of Divinity at 

 Edinburgh. 



John Kidd, Esq. M.D. F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medi- 

 cine in the University of Oxford. 



The Rev. William Buckland, D.D. F.R.S., Canon of Christ 

 Church, and Professor of Geology in the University of Ox- 

 ford. 



Peter Mark Roget, Esq. M.D., Sec. R.S. 



Charles Bell, Esq. F.R.S., Surgeon. 



The Rev. William Kirby, M.A. F.R.S. 

 ^ William Prout, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. 



Each being pledged to take a part, as designated by the 

 testator, most adapted to his acquirements and to his pursuits: 

 and thus it is confidently hoped and expected, that a work 

 entrusted to such individuals will appear, as a whole, worthy 

 of the age and of the country about to give it birth. 



XXXVIII. Notices respecting New Books. 



Six Maps of the Stars. Published under the superintendence of the 

 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London, KS30. 4to. 



WE congratulate our astronomical readers, as well as that large 

 portion of the public which is interested in the science of 

 astronomy, on the appearance of these beautiful maps. They would 

 have formed u valuable addition to astronomical literature, had they 

 been published on terms corresponding with those which works of this 

 description on a similar scale ordinarily bear. But published, as they 

 are, at a price so low as to enable every individual, who feels an in- 

 terest in the subject, to possess himself of an atlas of all the stars 



visible 



