206 New PuhUcatlons. 



should not pass; and of such a convulsion there are abundant 

 proofs in the state of the earth'^s crust. To this cause we may 

 assign many of those tertiary deposits which have hitherto been 

 supposed to have existed before the days of creation. On the 

 fourth day^ the heavenly bodies were set apart for a distinct and 

 separate purpose, and not then created, as some maintain. The 

 earth being thus prepared as the habitation of animated crea- 

 tures, God creates, on the fifth dny^ all that moveth in the wa- 

 ters and in the air. On the sixth day^ he completes his work 

 by the creation of all living beings that inhabit the earth, " cat- 

 tle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth."' Lastly, man 

 was created. 



4. The Microscopic Cabinet, or Select Animated Objects ; with a De- 



scription of the Jewel and Doublet Microscope , Test Objects, 

 Sfc: to which are subjoined Memoirs on the Verification of Mi- 

 croscopic Phenomena, and an exact Method of appreciating the 

 quality of Microscopes and Engiscopes. By C. R. Goring, 

 * M. D. Illustrated, from original drawings, by thirteen coloured 

 plates, and numerous engravings on wood, by Andrew Prit- 

 CHABD. 8vo. Pp. 246. London 1832. 



As the use of the microscope is daily leading to most import- 

 ant discoveries, — witness those of Ehrenberg and Strauss, — a 

 work descriptive of this instrument in its various forms, and the 

 modes of using it, cannot but be prized by those who take an 

 interest in the beautiful objects it reveals to our senses. The 

 volume of Goring and Pritchard, the title of which is here 

 given, fully fulfils these conditions, and besides contains many 

 original and curious observations. The plates are well engraved, 

 and evidently from accurate drawings. 



5. Outlines of Medical Botany, &c. &c. By Hugo Reid, Esq. Pre- 



sident of the Physical Society of Edinburgh. 8vo. Pp. 390. 

 Edin. 1832. 



This work contains a concise view of vegetable anatomy and 

 physiology ; and also, under the head Systematic Botany, a 

 view of the Natural and Linnean systems of classification. The 

 natural system, that now most in request, is fully sketched. 

 This volume is intended as an elementary work on Botany, for 



