Noliees respecting NeivBooJiS, T3 



Solids, Tables; 4, Combustion, various Kinds of Tuel ; 



5, Motion oF Heat on the conducting Power of Bodies^ 

 Ketrigcratioa ; 6, Ebullition, Sleam, Tables of Expansion 

 of Air, Water, and other Liquids ; 7, Ignition. Part II. 

 —Heating Mills and other Buildings by Steam : — Section 

 1, Proportionate Size f)f Boilers; 2, Proportion of Steam- 

 Pipes for Heating a given Space; 3, Substance and Surface 

 of the Pipes; 4. General Observations respecting Arrange- 

 ment, &c. ; 5, Of the Method of connecting the Pipes; 



6, Description of the Boiler with its Apparatus; 7, Sy- 

 phons; 8, Arrangements in actual Use m Mills, Dwell- 

 ings, and Baths. Part HI. — Drying and Heating by 

 Steam applied to Manufactures, &;c. 



The volunie before us exhibits in a condensed yet per- 

 spicuous manner the principal laws u'hich regulate the 

 phsRnomena of heat, including all the recent discoveries of 

 modern philosoj^hers, and the best practical application of 

 them which we have yet met with to the various purposes 

 coming within the plan of the author. To civil engineers, 

 and others whose professional avocations embrace such 

 objects as Mr. Buchannan has illustrated, we cannot re- 

 commend it in terms beyond its merits. 



, Mr. T, Wood fall, assistant secretary to the Society for 

 the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 

 has announced his intention to publish, by subscription, in 

 2 volumes, 8vo, tiie whole of the very valuable papers on 

 Agriculture which have been brought beTore the Society* 

 The approbation given by the Society to these documents^ 

 which enibrace evtry subject connected with agriculture, 

 ^nd extensive details of valuable experiments and observa- 

 tions, cannot fail to recommend the present undertaking to 

 the notice of the public. 



Mr. Ayshford, member of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, and assistant surgeon in the Royal Artillery, has in 

 the press An E'pitome of Anatoqiy, comprised in a series 

 of tables. The work will form a thin quarto volume ; and 

 as its object is to furnish a copious vocabulary for the stu- 

 dent of anatomy, pt-rspicuity and simplicity of arrangemeat 

 bave been chiefly aimed 2\ by the author. 



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