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 LXVI. Notices respecting New Books. 



UNDER the following head, which will be continued and ex- 

 tended in future Numbers, it is designed to give the titles, and 

 sometimes short notices, of important foreign works, and of the 

 most interesting papers which appear in foreign Journals and Trans- 

 actions, especially those of Germany, Sweden, Holland, and Russia, 

 as being probably least accessible to the generality of readers. 

 Some of our respected correspondents have expressed a wish for 

 such information ; and the diffusion of it may further the objects 

 which the publication of the Scientific Memoirs is designed to 

 promote, and may, perhaps, assist in making the best selection of 

 papers for the future parts of that work, should the sale of the Volume 

 already published encourage the Editor to continue it. — R. T. 



Bibliographical Bulletin. 



Skandinaviens FisJcar. (The Fishes of Scandinavia), by B. Fr. Fries 

 and C.U. Ekstrom. Part 1. 4-to. Stockholm, 1836. 

 It is a great pity that the authors, well known to zoologists, have not 

 employed a more general language, Latin or French, instead of the Swedish 

 with which the greater number of naturalists are unacquainted. The 

 drawings are well executed and coloured with the greatest care from living 

 specimens so that few can be found to equal them. 



Neues System der Pflanzen-Physiologie. (A new System of Vegetable 

 Physiology), by F. J. F. Meyen. Berlin, 1837. 8vo. 

 The first volume treats in the first book on the organs of assimilation 

 and formation ; in the second, on the organs of respiration and secretion ; 

 and concludes with a comparison of the types according to which the ele- 

 mentary organs in the stems of Monocotyledons, Dicotyledons and Acoty- 

 ledons are arranged. The author not only gives the results of his own 

 labours but carefully relates those of other botanists. The second volume 

 is to appear next year. 



Lehre von der Cohesion (Doctrine of Cohesion), by Prof. M. L. 

 Frankenheim. Breslau, 8vo. 



This work is divided into several parts, containing " Elasticity of Gases, 

 Elasticity and Coherence of fluid and solid Bodies, and Crystallography," &c. 



Poggendorff"s Annalen, 1837. No. 5. 



Contents.— On the Nature and formation of Coral islands and of the 

 Coral banks in the Red Sea; by C. G. Ehrenberg. (This paper is highly 

 interesting.) — On the changes of specific gravity which Sea-water under- 

 goes from heat, by A. Erman. — Harris's Electrical experiments in rarefied 

 air, by Dr. Riess, (This is a repetition and full confirmation of Mr. Harris's 

 experiments, which are recorded in Phil. Transact, for 1 834). — On the places 

 of the Maxima and Minima of the wave-surface, according to the ob- 

 servations of Fresnel; by K. W. Knockenhauer. — Artificial formation of 

 twin crystals which exhibit without any previous polarization epopoptical 

 figures similar to those observed in Arragonite ; by J. Miiller. — Additional 

 notice respecting experiments on vinous fermentation and putrefaction; 

 by Th. Schwann. — Description of two new Lamps (for organic analysis and 

 glass-blowing); by H. Hess. — On the Fusibility of Iridium; by Bunsen. — 



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