314 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



vans who accompanied Buonaparte in his Egyptian expedition, and wrote the 

 preface to the great Description of Egypt. His Theory of Heat gained 

 him the prize of the Institute, and has since been completed by a Series of Me- 

 moirs published successively in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences. 

 The last which has been printed contains many new views, the result of 

 experiment, and very important calculations on the temperature of interplanetary 

 space, the decrease of terrestrial heat, &c. He was engaged at the time of his 

 death in preparing for the press a large work in two volumes, entitled Analysis 

 of Algebraic Equations. M. Arago has been appointed Perpetual Secretary in 

 his place. 



M. Gosselin, the celebrated geographer, died at Paris on the 7th of Fe- 

 bruary last, at the age of 78 years. His principal works are : 1. Geographic 

 des Grecs analysee, ou les Systemes (T Eratosthene et de Ptolemee, compares 

 entre eux, et avec nos connaissances modernes, 4to., with nine plates, 1790 : 2. 

 Recherches sur la Geographic Systematigue et Positive des Anciens, 4 vols. 

 4to. ; besides a variety of memoirs inserted in the Class of History of the Me- 

 moires de I'Institut, and in the Memoires de V Academic des Inscriptions. He 

 assisted also in the labours of the French translation of Strabo. 



Soemmering, the celebrated anatomist, died in March last, at Frankfort, aged 

 seventy-six. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



Mr. Witham of Lartington, in a work now in the press, proposes to exhibit 

 microscopic representations of the internal structure of several fossil vegetables, 

 which occur in the coal fields of England and Scotland, and in the Lias forma- 

 tion, accompanied with others of those recent vegetables to which they seem t» 

 bear a decided resemblance. By these representations and their descriptions, it 

 is hoped that the existence of dicotyledonous plants in the coal formation, will be 

 satisfactorily proved. Mr. Witham, it is well known, has occupied much of his 

 time in the investigation of organic remains ; and this specimen of the results of 

 his labours, cannot fail to be gratifying as well as instructive to geologists. We 

 liave seen some of the drawings, and have pleasure in bearing testimony to their 

 great beauty. ..The Foreign Review is joined to the Foreign Quarterly... A new 

 series of the Journal des Voyages has commenced this year ; and it is much im- 

 proved... Dr Graham has published a Synoptical Table of Genera, to be appended 

 to Hooker's British Flora, for the use of students... Mr. Sillery, the poet, announ- 

 ces a philosophical work on the creation, (it is a pity he has chosen such a poeti- 

 cal subject for his debut in philosophy. )...M. GeofFroy Saint Hilaire has pre- 

 sented to the Academy, a volume, entitled " Principes de Philosophic Zoologique," 

 in answer to M. Cuvier. 



List of New Books. 

 Babbage on the Decline of Science in England, 8vo., 7s. 6d. bds... Hall's 

 General Atlas, L.8 : 18 : 6...Niebuhr on the Geography of Herodotus, 8vo., 6s. 

 ...Mosely on Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics, 8vo., 12s...Burckhardt's Notes 

 on the Bedouins, &c. 4to., L.2 : 12 : 6...Domeicr's Road-Book of Germany, 

 18mo., 10s. 6d...Macvicar's Elements of the Economy of Nature, 8vo., 16s... 

 Lardner's Cyclopedia, vol. vii. Cities and Towns... Main's Villa and Cottage 

 Florists' Directory... Stoker's Botanical Commentaries, 8vo...Eschschulz, Dr. F. 

 System der A calephen. 4to. Berlin. 12s...Reugger, Dr. J. R. Naturgeschichte 

 der Saeuegethiere von Paraguay. 8vo. Basil. 9s. — Withering's Botany, by Mac- 

 gillivray, 12nio. 10s. 



