New Publications. 2i3 



11. Magnetical Investigations. By the Reverend William Scoresby, 

 F.R.S. L. & E., and Corresponding Member of the Institute of France* 

 Part II. London; Longmans, 1843. We expect an article on these rx- 

 periinents for a future occasion. 



12. Experimental Researches ; Chemical and Agricultural — shewing 

 Carbon to be a compound body, made by Plants, and decomposed by 

 Putrefaction. By Robert Rigg, F.R.S. 12mo, pp. 264. Smith, Elder, 

 and Co. London. 1843. This interesting wurkj received when going to press, 

 will be noticed afterwards. 



13. Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, No. II. of Part V. 

 1843. London, Smith, Elder, and Co. This number contains the conclu- 

 sion of Mr Bell's account of the Reptiles collected during the voyage of the 

 Beagle. 



14. A Sermon preached in Ripon Cathedral. By the Rev. Henry 

 Parr Hamilton, A.M., F.R.S., Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 Ripon. 1843. From the Author. We recommend this discourse to those who 

 may wish to obtain sound views in regard to the bearings of science — particularly 

 geological science — on religion. 



15. The American Journal of Science and the Arts. Conducted by 

 Professor Silliman and Benjamin Silliman jun. — up to vol. Ixv., No. 5. 

 October 1843. 



16. Maps and Illustrations of the Physical Geography of the Globe. 

 By Dr H. Berghaus, Professor of Geography, Berlin, and an Ethnogra- 

 phic Map of Europe, by Dr Gustaf Kombst. Folio. Edinburgh, J. 

 and W. & A. K. Johnstons. 1843. From the Editors. These beautiful, 

 accurate, and admirably engraved Maps and Illustrations, are deserving of every 

 praise and public encouragement. 



17. Annaleu der Physik und Chemie herausgegeben zu Berlin Von 

 J. C. PoggendorfF. Received up to No. 7, 1843. 



18. Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, up tq No. 93. September 

 1843. 



19. Report on the Geology of Connecticut, in North America. By 

 James G. Perceval. 8vo, pp. 495. This work, which we consider of great 

 importance in a g eog no siical point of view j has just reached us from the author. 



20. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Edited by the Secre- 

 tary. The number last received was No. 131 for the year 1842. 



21. The Journal of Agriculture, and the Transactions of the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland. No. 2. New Series for October 

 1843. Edinburgh. Blackwoods. 



22. General results of Microscopic Inquiries into the minute structure 

 of the Skeletons of Mollusca, Crustacea, aud Echinodermata. By Wil- 

 liam B. Carpenter, M.D. With two Plates. 1843. From the Author. 



23. Essay on the Physiognomy of Serpents. By H. Schlegel, Doctor 

 in Philosophy, &c. Translated by T. S. Traill, M.D., F.R.S.E., Regius 

 Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, &c. 

 12mo. pp. 254. Witli Plates, and a Map shewing the Geographical Dis- 

 tribution of Poisonous Serpents. Edinburgh, Maclachlan and Stewart, 



