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not, fully sustain the high expectations formed of it. Dr Chal- 

 mers''s eloquent volumes, and also the admirable treatise of Pro- 

 fessor Whewell, are reprinting. 



10. French Works on Natural History. 

 Brongniart is about to publish a new edition of his Mineralo- 

 gy, in which he will make use of Gustavus Rose's late work. 

 We are glad to learn that there is some probability of Ferrusac's 

 valuable Bulletin being recommenced. A useful weekly journal 

 is now publishing in Paris, entitled, " L'Institut, Journal des 

 Academies, et Societes scientifiques de la France, et de PEtran- 

 ger,'"* in quarto sheets. It gives an account of the proceedings of 

 all learned societies, with some scientific news. Boue is engaged 

 with a work on the general Bibliography of all the sciences more 

 or less connected with geology, viz. astronomy, physics, chemis- 

 try, mineralogy, geology, geognosy, paleontology, natural his- 

 tory, physical geography, geodosy, &c. All the works, acade- 

 mical memoirs, periodicals in all languages, &c. will be methodi- 

 cally and chronologically arranged, and illustrated by notes and 

 critical remarks. The second volume of Daubuison's Geology 

 is about to appear. 



11. Cheap Publications on the Conti?ient, 

 At Paris there is at present an extraordinary demand for cheap 

 ])ubhcations ; the weekly two sols papers are increasing in num- 

 ber. We have now, says a correspondent, " the Magazin pitto- 

 resque, the Lanterne magique, Panorama, Mosaique, France 

 pittoresque^ all published in quarto, with fine wood-cuts, at the 

 weekly rate of two sols each, and many others are in preparation. 

 A cheap dictionary of natural history is about to be started, un- 

 der the guidance, not of quack naturalists, but of men of high 

 reputation in the scientific world. The shares of some of these 

 publications have risen from the original value of 300 francs to 

 that of 5000 francs ; — so much for speculation in this kind of 

 stock. The desire for reading, I find, after having travelled 

 over the most of Europe, to be marvellously on the increase. 

 Truly scientific periodicals at the rate of six francs per annum, 

 is a wonderful feature of ou r times." 



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