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LITERARY NOTICES. 



There are preparing for press, from the MSS. of the late Major Rennell, 

 a Memoir on the Genei'al Currents of the Atlantic Ocean, accompanied by 

 a series of charts, shewing their force and direction ; and also a work on the 

 ancient and modern geography of certain parts of Asia, with 12 maps. 



Professor Leonhard has now in the press a work on Basaltic or Trap 

 Rocks, which will appear in 2 vols. 8vo. with numerous sections and maps. 

 It will be published in the course of the present year. 



Professor M'Culloch is preparing for publication a Theoretical and 

 Practical Dictionary of Common and Commercial Navigation, in one large 

 volume. 



MM. Zwich and SchilVs Account of a Journey from Serapta to several 

 Calmuc Hordes of the Astrachan Government, is nearly ready. 



Letters to a Young Naturalist, by Dr Drummond, of Belfast, are nearly 

 ready for publication. The great object of these letters is the recommen- 

 dation of the study of natural history. 



A Scientific Annual, in which natural history will fonn a prominent 

 feature, is in preparation by W. M. Higgins, F. G. S. of Witham. 



A Gardening and Naturalist's Annual, edited by Mrs Loudon, will 

 appear about November, 1831, and will be continued annually. 



. The second part of the 1st Vol. of the Transactions of the Northumberland 

 and Newcastle Natural History Society will be published forthwith. 



We understand that the edition of Wilson's American Ornithology, 

 published in Constable's Miscellany, will also contain Bonaparte's Continuar- 

 tion, and that the first volume will appear in March next. 



LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 



Maycock's Flora JBarbadensis, pp. 446, 1830. Experimental Inquiry into 

 the Number and Properties of the Primary Colours, and the Source of Colour 

 in the Prism. By Walter Crum, Esq. Lond. and Glasg. 1830. Dr Paris' 

 Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, 4to. Herschell's Preliminary Discourse on the 

 Study of Natural Philosophy. (Lardner's Cyclopaedia.) Transactions of 

 the Plymouth Institution. The South African Quarterly Journal. No. III. 

 Price 3s. A Topographical and Statistical Description of the British 

 Dominions in North America, including Observations on Land Planting 

 and Emigration, &c. ; by Colonel Bouchette. Picken's Travels and 

 Researches of Eminent English Missionaries. Parts I. and II. of a 

 translation from the German, of the Anatomical Atlas of Dr M. J. Weber 

 of Bonn. Burrow's Elements of Conchology ; besides the several works 

 noticed in former parts of this Number, 



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