192 Scu'titific Intelligence — Miscellancoits. 



phcie will rob them of no water. Hence they maintain their 

 freshness. The only difference between plants in a '• Ward's 

 case," and flowers in the little apparatus just described, is this — 

 that the former is intended for plants to g-row in for a consider- 

 able space of time, while the latter is merely for their preservation 

 for a few days ; and that the air which surrounds the tiowers is 

 always charged with the same quantity of vapour, but will vary 

 with the circumstances, and at the will of him who has the 

 manai^oment of it. We recommend those who love to see plenty 

 of fresh flowers in their sitting-rooms in dry weather, to procure 

 it. The experiment can be tried by inserting a tumbler over a 

 rosebud in a saucer of water. — Gardrncrs' Chronicle. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



We have received among others the following works, which 

 we recommend to the attention of our readers : — 



1. W. E. Redfield on ^^'hirI^vind Storms; with replies to the Objec- 

 tions and Strictures of Dr Hare. New York. 1842. 



2. An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural His- 

 tory of Insects ; by Messrs Kirby and Spence. Two volumes 8vo. Long- 

 man, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. 1843. 21ie nixth edition 

 of these admirable volumes. 



0. Descriptive and Historical account of Hydraulic and other machines 

 for raising water, ancient and modern ; including the progressive deve- 

 lopment of the Steam Engine ; by Thomas Ewbank. Illustrated by nearly 

 three hundred Engravings. One volume 8vo, pp. 682. Tilt and Boguc, 

 Fleet Street, London. 1842. The English edition of a valuable, very in- 

 teresting, and amusing work. 



4. Nomenclator Zoologicus, eontinens Nomina Systematica Genera 

 Animalium, Tarn vlvcntinm quam Fossilium ; auctorc L. Agassiz. Fas- 

 ciculus II. eontinens Aves. Solodur, 1842. This work, lohen finished, 

 nill become indispensable to ever]! naturalist. 



5. Sketchof the Geology of Moray; by Patrick Duff, Esq. 8vo. With 

 Plates. Forsyth and Young, Elgin. A lucid geological account of a small 

 hut intercstiny district. 



G. On the Yoltaic Circuit ; by Alfred Smee, F.R.S. 



7. Popular Conchology, or the Sliell Cabinet arranged, being an Intro- 

 duction to the modern System of Conchology ; by Agnes Catlow. Il- 

 lustrated by figures of all the genera. Small 8vo., pp. .300. Longman, 

 Brown, Green and Longmans, London. A pleasant, useful, and well il- 

 lustrated volume. 



8. The employment of the Microscope in Medical Studies ; by John 

 Iluf^hes Rennet, M.D., Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, &c. Maclachlan 



