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of benefiting by the invigorating breezes of our southern Coasts, as 

 well as to that of their medical advisers. It describes the peculiarities 

 of climate, with respect especially to their influence on disease, which 

 are presented on the southern coasts, and discusses, with consider- 

 able success, some of the causes of this influence. It comprises at 

 the same time a general view of the various physical characteristics 

 of the district to which it relates ; such as is calculated to entertain 

 the mind of the invalid who may consult it. To some of the obser- 

 vations on the effect of atmospheric variations on the human body, 

 we do not feel disposed to subscribe - } but the reasoning on this sub- 

 ject does not affect the general merits of the work. The contents of 

 the work are arranged in the following order : 



The varied nature of our coasts 5 causes tending to affect the tem- 

 perature of coast-situations, more especially that of the southern 

 coasts 3 the Hastings coast, its geological character, choice of si- 

 tuation it affords to invalids in elevation and in temperature, ks 

 other peculiarities, table of its temperature 5 on the air j influence 

 of atmospherical variations on the constitution } on the effects of sea- 

 air j on the water of the southern coast 5 general observations on 

 bathing j on cold sea-bathing, its effects on the constitution, cir- 

 cumstances which render it inadmissible, precautions in its employ- 

 ment 5 warm sea-water bathing, its operation on the system ; shower 

 and vapour bathing, observations on indigestion and hypochon- 

 driasis 3 acute rheumatism 5 chronic rheumatism 5 gout ; consump- 

 tion j winter cough 5 asthma ; haemoptysis ; diseases of the liver ; 

 the effects of mercurial medicines ; the effects of loss of blood 5 other 

 causes of debility 5 diseases of children j scrofula 5 rickets ; maras- 

 mus j spasmodic diseases j hooping-cough ; measles j diseases of 

 the skin, &c. j notice concerning the chalybeate waters of the Hast- 

 ings coast. 



The Royal Society of Gottingen have published a new volume of their 

 Transactions, entitled " Commentationes Societatis Gottingensis." 

 It contains three papers by Professor Gauss : — 1. Theoria residuorum 

 biquadraticorum. — 2. Supplementum theoria? combinationis observa- 

 tionum minimis erroribus obnoxiae. — 3. Disquisitiones generates circa 

 superficies curvas*. 



Professor Gauss has likewise published (in German) his "Determi- 

 nation of the difference of latitude of the observatories at Gottingen 

 and Altona," being the astronomical part of his measurement of an 

 arc of the meridian. 



The Berlin " Astronom. Jahrbuch for 1830," has been published 

 for the first time by Prof. Encke, on an extended and improved plan. 

 It contains, besides the ephemeris, four papers by Prof. Encke on the 

 calculations of occultations of Stars ; on Interpolation ; on Sex- 

 tants, and on Transitsf. 



The well-known eccentric Dr. Gruithuisen, now Professor of 

 Astronomy at Munich, who has so frequently amused the public by 

 his discovery of flat-roofed buildings, palm-groves, and macadamized 



* See Phil. Mag. and Annals, N. S. vol. iii. p. 331. 

 t See p. 141 of the present Number. 



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