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LITERARY NOTICES. 



Mr. H. Jouy, member of the Asiatic Society, with the assistance of Mr. Reinaud, 

 is about to publish a translation of the Geography of Aboul-Feda, from an Arabian 

 manuscript in the King's Library, Paris. . . . Bory de St. Vincent, as the chief of 

 the scientific expedition to Greece, is to superintend a general account of its 

 proceedings. ... The editors of this Journal are making arrangements for the 

 production of a monthly sheet of Catalogue Raisonne, which will contain notices 

 of all scientific works, and books of travels published in this country, and on the 

 continent ; and will also contain a list, with critical observations on the commu- 

 cationsand papers contained in scientific periodicals; thus coustituting a monthly 

 register of the progress of science and art.... A second voyage round the World, 

 from the German of Otto Von Kotzebue, is in the press.... As is also, a trans- 

 lation of Niebuhr's disquisition on the Geography of Herodotus, and researches 

 on the history of the ^cythians, Gets, and Sarmatians....A. M. Hay, of Edin- 

 burgh, is in search of subscribers for a work, which is to explain the formation of 

 the Terrestial Globe and pther Planets. 



List of New Books. 



Disputatio de Strabonis patria, by Trebelis. 4to. p. 23. BantEen....A Year in 

 Spain, by a young American. 8vo. pp. 395. Boston. . . . Gemaelde der Physischen 

 Welt, J. G. Sommer. Vol. II. and III. Prague. ... Handbuch der Natorge- 

 schichte, by Stein. 2 vols. 8vo. Leipzig. . . . Ordines Naturales Plantarum, T. Bart- 

 ling. 8vo. Goettingen.... Species Graminum iconibus et descriptionibus, Dr. Tri- 

 nius. 10 parts, 4to. ... Handbuch der Zoologie, Prof. Fischer. 8vo. pp. 599, Vienna. 

 ...M'Kenzie's Notes on Hait^. 2 vols. 8vo. . . . Coddington on the Eye, and Op- 

 tical Instruments. 8vo. . . . Houle's Mission to India. Part II. 8vo....A second 

 volume of the British Naturalist.... A new edition of the Stories of Popular 

 Travels in South America.... A Manual of the History of Philosophy, translated 



from the German of Tennemann Auldjo's Ascent of Mont Blanc, 2d edit.... 



Cuvier's Animal Kingdom ; Fossil Remains, by E. Pidgeon. . . . Ranking'* 

 Historical Researches on the Conquest of Peru, Mexico, &c. in the 13th Century, 

 by the Mongols.... Carte Ge'ologique de I'Odenwald, &c. par Klipstein, 18 pages, 

 in 4to. Heidelberg. . . . Flora Altaica, par Ledebour, Meyer et Bunge, Tome I. 

 Berolini....Spicilegia Zoologica, &c. by John Edw. Gray. Part I. 4to. Plates. 



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