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Article XVI. 

 NEW SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 



PREPARING FOR PUBLICATIOlf. 



Capt. Parry's Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of the 

 North-west Passage. 4to. 



Economy of the Eyes, being Precepts for the Improvement and Pre- 

 servation of the Sight. By W. Kitchener, MD. 



Mr. John Curtis has in the press No. I. of his Illustrations of English 

 Insects. We understand the intention of the Author is to publish 

 highly finished figures of such species of insects (with the plants upon 

 which they are found) as constitute the British genera, with accurate 

 representations of the parts on which the characters are founded, and 

 descriptive letter-press to each plate, giving as far as possible the habits 

 and economy of the subjects selected. The work will be published 

 monthly, to commence the 1st of January, 1824. 



JUST PUBLISHED. 



No. XX. of Sowerby's Genera of Shells, containing Cardita, Cypri- 

 cardia, Thecidium, Rostellaria, Strombus, and Pteroceras. 



Chemical Recreations, a Series of amusing and instructive Experi- 

 ments, <S:c. with a Description of a cheap and simple Apparatus. 

 18mo. 3^. 



First Steps to Botany, intended as popular Illustrations of the 

 Science, leading to its Study as a Branch of general Education. By 

 James L. Drummond, MD. I2mo. 100 cuts, 9^. 



Lectures on the general Structure of the Human Body, and on the 

 Anatomy and Functions of the Skin. By T. Chevalier, FRS. &c. 

 8vo. 12*. 



The Pupil's Pharmacopoeia. 18mo. 



Observations and Commentaries on Medicine compared as a Science- 

 with the other learned Professions. By Adam Dods, MD, 8vo. 2s. 6d 



Article XVII, 



NEW PATENTS. 



J. Christie, of Mark-lane, London, merchant, and T. Harper, of 

 Tamworth, Staffordshire, merchant, for their improved method of com- 

 bining and using fuel in stoves, furnaces, boilers, and steam-engines. — 

 Oct. 9. 



J. R. Cottor, of Castle Magnor, near Mallow, in the county of Cork, 

 for certain improvertients on wind musical instruments. — Oct. 9. 



J.Henfrev, of Little Henry-street, Waterloo-road, Surrey, engineer, 

 and A. Applegath, of Duke-street, Stamford-street, Blackfriars, Surrey, 

 printer, for certain machinery for casting types. — Oct. 9. 



E. S. Swaine, of Bucklersbury, for a method of producing and pre- 

 serving artificial mineral waters, and for machinery to effect the same. 

 —Oct. 9. 



