f>4> ACCOUNT OF NEW BOOKS. 



defcription of a newly invented globe time-piece — XII. A 

 defcription of the pendant planetarium — XIII. On the ufe of 

 the thermometer in navigation — XIV. Sur les vegetaux, les 

 polypes et les infe&es — XV. Memoir on the analyfis of black 

 vomit — XVI. Obfervations on the foda, magnefia and lime, 

 contained in the water of the ocean ; (hewing that they operate 

 advantageoufly there by neutralizing acids, and among others 

 the feptic acid, and that fea-water may be rendered fit for 

 wafhing cloaths without the aid of foap — XVII. Defcription 

 of a Hopper for the openings by which the fewers of cities 

 receive the water of their drains — XVIII. A memoir on 

 animal cotton, or the infect fly-carrier (fee Phil. Journal for 

 April) — XIX. Note concerning a vegetable found under 

 ground — XX. Agronomical and thermometrical obfervations, 

 made at the confluence of the Miffiflippi, and Ohio rivers — 

 XXI. Agronomical and thermometrical obfervations made 

 on the boundary between the United States and his Ca- 

 tholic Majefty — XXII. Obfervations on the figure of the 

 earth — XXIII. Defcription of fome improvements in the 

 common fire-place, accompanied with models offered to the 



confideration of the American philofophical ibciety. Apr 



pendix, I. An account of a method of preventing the pre- 

 mature decay of peach trees. II. Defcription of a method 

 of cultivating peach-trees, with a view to prevent their pre- 

 mature decay ; confirmed by the experience of forty-five 

 years, in Delaware ftate and the weflern parts of Penfyl- 



Parkinfon's Tfie Chemical Pocket Book ; or Memoranda Chemica ; arranged 

 in a Compendium of Chemijlry, By James Parkinson, 

 Holborn. The third Edition, zvith appropriate Tables and 

 Accounts of the lateft Difcoveries. \ 803 p. 272. 12mo. 



THE character of this work is already eftablifhed. In the 

 prefent edition the neweft difcoveries are inferted. The 

 author has adopted the nomenclature of Chenevix. 



