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his other works, with a copious commen- 
tary, is.preparing for the press. 
. A.new work is preparing by Mr, Peter 
WNicuotson, on the Mechanical Exercises 
of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Ma- 
sonry, Turning, &c.; with plates of the 
various tools used in each branch of bu- 
siness. 
Sir Georce ALLEY, is preparing for 
the press, Reports of the Utility and Em- 
ployment of Mercury, in-the treatment 
of inflammatory and other diseases, in 
which the exhibition of that remedy has 
‘been neglected and considered as inad- 
missible, 
A stereotype edition of the Bible in 
French, collated with the most approved 
foreign editions, is in considerable for- 
‘wardness. 
The Hon, Annanetua Hawke, has 
nearly ready for publication, Babylon, 
and other poems, in foolscap, octavo. 
A View of the present State of Sicily, 
its Rural Economy, Population, and Pro- 
duce, from a late Survey of the Professor 
of Agriculture at Palermo, with Obser- 
vations on its general character, com- 
merce, revenues, &c. bya British officer, 
serving in the Mediterranean, will appear 
in a few days, in cne quarto volume. 
A botanical work, entitled, Illustra- 
tiones Theophrusti in usum Botanicorum 
precipue perigrinantium, in an octavo 
volume, is nearly ready for delivery. Tt 
contains a list of more than four hundred 
species which have been described by 
that celebrated ancient. It is arranged 
in three parts; the first containing an al- 
phabetical list of the plants, with their 
notices and descriptions as they occur in 
the two great works of that author; a 
systematic table of the several species 
according to the Linnzan system; and a 
lexicon explaining all the technical terms 
made use of by Theophrastus. 
Report of Diseases. 
[April 1, 
Mr. Nrcnoras Cartisze has sent to 
press, his Topographical Researches in 
Wales, which he hopes to lay before the 
public in the beginning of May. 
- Mr. J. Carrer has near completed a 
collection of drawings in illustration of 
the Costume of Engiand, from the res 
motest periods to the present day. The 
subjects consist of statues from niches, 
tombs, basso-rehevos; effigies from 
biasses; paintings on walls; illummated 
missals; and authenticated public hise 
torical paintings. The nunber of these 
representations already amounis to 350. 
Mr. Antuony Topp Vaompson, has 
nearly ready for publication, The Luadon 
Bispensatory; containing the Elements 
and Practice of Materia Medica and 
Pharmacy, with a translation of- the 
Pharmacopeeias of London, the Edine 
burgh, and the Dublin, Colleges of Phy- 
sicians; many useful tables; ahd cop. 
per-plates of the Pharmaceutical Appa 
ratus; the whole forming a Synopsis of- 
of Materia Medica and ‘Therapeutics. 
Pysche, or the Legend of Love, with 
other poems, by the late Mr, Henry 
Treue, will speedily issue frem the press. 
An alteration has been made at Tri- 
nity College, Cambridge, in the form of 
admission; those who intend to become 
members being no. longer admitted by 
proxy, but obliged to appear in person, 
The order of Fellow Commoner is also 
abcfished in this society. 
The following are the subjects for Sir 
Wm, Browne’s gold medals for this year: 
For the Greek Ode, In-Obitum Illus. 
trissimeé Principisse Amelia. 
For the Latin Ode, Prelium cum Gelk 
lisin Busaci Montibus commissum, 
For the Epigrams, 
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a 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
"Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
20th of February to the 20th of Marck. 
a 
GAINST consumption, ‘‘ that vast 
) pitfall situated in the high-road of 
life,” the Reporter has been sufficiently 
earnest and reiterate in Ws warnings, 
more especially to those who, with a 
seeming security, approach to the edge 
of the precipice, But, although upon 
this subject the more frequent and more 
fatal ‘fault, consists in the want of a» 
well-founded fear, there’are often at the 
same time mistaken apprehensions with 
regard to the actual existence of pthysis 
pulmonalis. Nearly all the symptoms 
-of which may be exhibited by other dis- 
eases, which have no immediate or ese 
sential connection with the lungs. One 
instance, illustrative of this fact, has re. 
cently occurred undev the notice of the 
Reporter, in which the patient displayéd 
the countenance, and all the other ine 
dications, 
