iH Analiftei of Books, [July, 



mencing in the year 1750, and ending in 1821, and those of the 

 latter be^nning in 1771, and terminating in 1822, with several 

 others of the quantities • of copper produced by the various 

 mining districts of the kingdom from 1818 to 1822; a hst of 

 donations to the Society ; and another of the minerals wanted 

 to complete its cabinet, close the volume. B. 



Narrative of a Journey to the Sho7'es of the Polar Sea, in the 

 Years 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822. By John Franklin, Capt. 

 RN. FRS. and Commander of the Expedition. With an 

 Appendix on various Subjects relating to Science and Natural 

 History. Illustrated by numerous Plates and Maps. Pub' 

 lished by Authority of the Right Honourable the Earl Bathurst, 



{Concluded from vol. v. p. 387.) 



We intended, in the present article, to have given a minute 

 analysis of the Appendix to Capt. Franklin's Narrative; 

 omitting any notice of that narrative itself, on account of 

 the numerous channels of general information through which 

 the public either are or will be made acquainted with its con- 

 tents. Such, however, is the variety and importance of the 

 scientific information comprised in the Appendix, occupying 

 two hundred and seventy closely printed quarto pages, that it 

 would be impossible, within the space allotted to this depart- 

 ment of the Annals, to give even the semblance of a detailed 

 account of it. The utmost we can do, therefore, is to present 

 our readers with an enlarged table of the contents of this Appen- 

 dix ; and as we inserted two papers from it on the Aurora 

 Borealis, in the commencement of the article, we will subjoin a 

 few observations selected from several others ; in order that the 

 reader may possess some satisfactory knowledge, of at least one 

 of the subjects principally treated of, by the mdefatigable tra- 

 veller and his no less indefatigable coadjutors. At some future 

 opportunity, perhaps, we may transfer to our pages some further 

 portions of their labours : 



The following are the contents of the Appendix in question : 



No. 1. — Geognostical Observations ; by John Richardson, 

 MD. and Surgeon to the Expedition. 41 pages. 



No. 2. — Aurora Borealis. 9 pages ; including Capt. Franklin's 

 Genei-al Remarks, and Lieut. Hood's Observations, given in the 

 Annals for May ; — with An Account of the Aurora Borealis seen 

 at Cumberland House between Oct. 23, 1819, and June 13, 

 1820, by the latter officer; — and Observations on the Magnetic 

 Needle at Cumberland House, from the beginning of Feb. to the 

 end of May, 1820, by the same. 



No. 3.— ^Observations on the Aurora at Fort Entreprise ; and 

 Notices of the Appearances of the Aurora, at the same place ; 

 both by Capt. Franklin :— Table of Observations on the Deviar 



