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\ 8 HUTTON has, for some time 
past, been employing his leisure 
in arranging and printing a complete col- 
lection of what may be considered his 
original discoveries, improvements, and 
inventions, under the title of “ Tracts,” 
mathematical and philosophical, in 
3 vols. 8vo. of which the first volume is 
printed, and ready for publication, con- 
taining, among many linprovements, a 
greatly enlarged edition of his Treatise 
on Bridges. 
All the readers of the Monthly Ma- 
gazine have been interested by the com- 
munications relative to Stramonium, and 
their opinions will be rendered uniform 
by the valuable letter ‘of Dr. Sims, in 
the present Number. As the subject is 
become of such great importance, the 
editor of the Moathly Magazine has re- 
solved to collect intoa pamphlet all that 
has appeared, to add other letters in his 
possession, and to invite further com- 
munications from the faculty, and others. 
He purposes also to annex a coloured 
engraving of the thorn apple, a botanical 
description, and some introductory ob- 
servations. Communications intended 
to have place in the pamphlet, should 
however be sent immediately. : 
Mr. YatTmay, a gentleman of inde- 
pendent fortune at Chelsea, after the 
cunviction of eight years experience of 
the utility of the Galvanic principle, as 
exhibited in the theories of the Doctors 
Davy and Garnet, wishes to extend its 
Mfluence so as to be permanently be- 
neficial to the human body. Je has ac- 
cordingly addressed a letter on this sub- 
ject to the physicians of St. George's 
Hlospital, of which he is a governor, and 
this is now under the consideration of 
the Medical Board of that charity. 
Mr. J. Norrts Brewer, has ready 
for press a new Romance, in four vo-~ 
Jumes, under the title of “An Old 
Family Lezend, or one Husband and two 
Marriages.” 
’ Mr. Curry’s second set of Etchings 
of the Antiquities of Chester will be 
published early in May. 
Mr. Tuomas Orcer, husband of the 
-beaatiful Mrs. Orger, of the Lyceum 
Theatre, is now closely engaged in 
making a new Translation of Ovid’s 
Metamorplioses, in Rhyme, to be pub- 
Moytury Mag, No, 213. 
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lished in quarterly Numbers. The first 
Number to make its appearance in thé 
course of next month. ©” \ 
Dr. Epwarps has nearly finished @ 
work in two volumes, with which he hag 
been long engaged, to ascertain the real 
and relative foundations of the different 
civil, political, commercial, and indi« 
vidual interests ef society and nations. 
Mr, H. M. Browne has in the~press, 
and will speedily publish, the Apothe- 
cary’s Vade Mecum, or Companion to 
the New London Pharmacopeeia, for the 
use of Students and junior Practitioners, 
Mr. Perer Nrcnotson has in for= 
wardness, 2 Dictionary of Architecture, 
to be completed in two quarto volumes, 
with many plates, i 
General Matcorm, late envoy to the 
court of Persia, will shortly publish a 
sketch of the Political History of India, 
from 1784, to the present time, 
Dr. Tuomas Youno, has nearly ready 
for publication, in octavo, a System of 
Practical Nosology ; with an Introduction 
to Medical Literature in general. 
Dr. Curry, of Guy’s Hospital, has in 
the press-a work, on the Nature of the 
Hepatic- Function, which is to be coms 
prised in two octavo volumes. 
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Council of the city of London, have 
directed that the proceedings in commun 
council, authenticated by the proper 
officer, and superintended by a coms 
mittee, shall in future be printed, for the 
use of the members of the corporation. 
The state’ papers and letters of Sir 
Watrter Aston, afterward Lord Aston, 
ambassador in Spain in the reign of 
James I, and Charles I. are printing 
uniformly with those of Sir Ralph Sadlery 
in two quarto volumes, 
Mr. Crirrorp, editor of the state 
papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, has in the 
press, in a quarto volume, Tixall Poetry ; 
with notes, &c. &c. 
The Rev. H. B. Witsoy is preparing 
for the press “A Histoty of Merchang 
Taylors’ Schoo), London,” from its foun= 
dation to the present time, 
Dr. Prdrson’s Warburtonian Lece 
tures, preached in Linculn's Inn chapel, 
will soon appear. 9 
Mr. Bawowen has completed bir 
translation of the whole uf the larger 
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