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raise a doubt as to whether some of the substances obtained in organic analy- 

 sis, are not formed during the processes employed in performing the analysis. 



A Royal Society of Sciences has been established at Antwerp, and, though 

 it has existed only six months, it already boasts of many eminent names of 

 foreign literati among its members— such as Alex, von Humboldt, Charles 

 Dupin, Dr. Pariset, Alexander de la Borde, De Candolle, Magendie, Hufe- 

 land, &c., &c. — Foreign Quarterly Review. 



M. Azeglio, director of the Royal Gallery of Paintings at Turin, is pub- 

 lishing representations of the finest pictures in that collection, engraved by 

 some of the most eminent Italian artists. The work will form eighty num- 

 bers, of four plates each, in folio. The illustrative text accompanying them, 

 will be furnished by M. Azeglio himself — Ibid. 



The Arts and Artists in France According to a French scientific 



publication, there are now in France 82 museums, 160 schools of the fine arts, 

 2,231 artists, whose names have been made eminent by their works. This 

 number of artists consists of 1,096 painters, 150 sculptors, 113 engravers, 263 

 architects^ and 309 draughtsmen. In Paris itself there are no less than 35 

 schools of the fine arts, 20 museums, 773 painters, 106 sculptors, 102 engrav- 

 er^, 195 architects^ and 209 draughtsmen. Total, 1,385 artists. 



LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 



'Shortly will be published, " The Romance of Flowers.'''' The work will 

 consist of highly -finished coloured engravings, with poetical illustrations, 

 and apposite extracts from the old poets. The drawings and original 

 illustrations, by Louisa Anne Twamley, author of " Sea-Side Thoughts," and 

 4)iher poems. 



A History of British Quadrupeds, by Thomas Bell, F. R. S., F. L. S., &c., 

 uniform with " Yarrell's British Fishes," will shortly appear. 



Mr. Thomas Turner, of Manchester, is preparing for publication, Re- 

 searches on the Organization, Functions, and Diseases of Membranous Se- 

 creting Textures, with original plans, &c. 



The first number of the British and Foreign Medical Review is announced 

 for publication on the first of January, under the editorship of Dr. Forbes 

 and Dr. Conolly, and to be continued quarterly. 



A History of English Literature, critical and philosophical, by Mr. I^Is- 

 raeli, is announced. 



Shortly will be published, the Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor 

 Coleridge, edited (with the permission of Mr. Coleridge's executor) by Mr. 

 Henry Nelson Coleridge. 



Observations on the Present State of the Deaf and Dumb in Great Britain, 

 shewing the great increase of the calamity, and pointing out the most ap- 

 proved means for its removal, together with a new mode of education, by the 

 Rev. W. Fletcher, ¥. R. A. S. 



JDr. J. L. Bardsley, of Manchester, is preparing a second volume of his 

 Hospital Facts and Observations. 



