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The African Repository. Vol. XXXIII. No. 5. May, 1857. 

 Washino-ton. 8vo. — From the American Colonization Society* 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. Vol. 

 XXIII. No. 69. May, 1857. New Haven. 8vo.— From 

 Profs. Silliman and Dana, Editors. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. XV. No. 173. May^ 1857. 

 Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard (^^ Lea. 



Nuova Zoonomia, ovvero Dottrina de Rapporti Organici ; del Dottore 

 Giovanni Copello. Vol. I. Lima, 1856. 8vo. — From the 

 Avthor. 



A Discourse on the Tendencies of Modern Science: read before the 

 Philadelphia City Institute, Dec. 1855. 8vo. 



On the Arterial circulation: its Physiology and chief Pathological Re- 

 lations. By Henry Hartshorne, M.D., &c. &c. Philadelphia, 

 1856. 8vo.— From the Author. 



Description of New Fossil Crinoidea from the Palocozoic Rocks of the 

 Western and Southern Portions of the United States. By B. F. 

 Shumard, M.D. St. Louis, 1857. 8vo.— From the Author. 



First Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the M'Kean and Elk 

 Land and Improvement Company to the Stockholders. Phila- 

 delphia, 1857. 8vo. — From Prof. John C. Cresson. 



The Astronomical Journal: No. 102. April 22, 1857. Albany. 

 4to.— From Dr. B. A. Gould, Jr., Editor. 



Mr. William Parker Foulke requested permission to make 

 a statement in relation to some remarks of the late Mr. Hugh 

 Miller, upon pages 171 to 175 of his recently published book, 

 entitled "The Testimony of the Rocks.'' (Boston Ed. 1857.) 



It appeared that Mr. Miller had so far mistaken the spirit and phra- 

 seology of a brief criticism upon his reasoning, as to believe that he 

 had been charged with intentional misrepresentation. This was the 

 less to be expected, as the criticism had been published by one of the 

 leading scientific societies of this country as a part of its proceedings, 

 and had been purposely guarded by express mention of " the esteem 

 in which the character of Mr. Miller is deservedly held in the United 

 States" — a phrase, the intended value of which was so little seen by 

 him, that he has omitted to quote it, although originally printed in 

 juxtaposition with the extract which he republishes. 



The melancholy associations now connected with the writings of 

 Mr. Miller, seemed to Mr. F. to suggest as proper the proffer by him 



