JS2i.J Lileiuiy and Phdusuphicul Inlcli 



Shortly will I,>e publisJicd in 4!o, 

 v.itli tiiii'fy plates and maps, a copious 

 History of Brazil, iufUuliua; more piir- 

 ticiilarly its Geo;iraphy and Couimerce, 

 by Mr. JA:>iES He^dersox, recently 

 returned trcm So'tth America. 



A new edition, corrected, of Bi-liop 

 V/atson's Theological Tracts, is in the 

 press. 



Mr. Gray has commenced his bota- 

 nical excursions tlirongh the environs 

 of London. The advantage gained in 

 teaching botany by demonstrations in 

 the weods and iields, with the plants 

 themselves before the eye in their native 

 place of growth, must be universally felt. 

 Dr. Dickenson has in the press, the 

 Medical Student's Vade IMecum, being 

 a work in the form of question and 

 answer ; comprising Anatomy, Physi- 

 ology, Botany, and Pharmacy, &c. &c.; 

 to which ;vill be added an abridged 

 and correct explanatiou of the clicmical 

 decompositions. 



Mr. Busby, the architect, is prepar- 

 ing a Description of all the principal 

 State Prisons, or Penitentiaries, in the 

 Uuiied States of America. The work 

 will be illustrated with plans and views 

 of those establishments, in Massachu- 

 setts. Connecticut, New York, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and 

 Virginia, which were visited by Mr. B. 

 in tlieyears 1818 and 1S19, 



Shortly will be published a small 

 volume, called the Parent's Medical 

 and Surgical Assistant; intended for 

 the use of the Heads of Families, Pa- 

 rochial Clergymen, and others. 



John Ayrton Paris, M.D. Fellow 

 of the Royal CoUegeof Physicians, and 

 John S. M. Fonblanquf., Esq. Bar- 

 rister at Law, have in considerable 

 forwardness, a work, to be comprized 



in one volume in 8vo., entitled Medi- 

 cal Jurisprudence. It will compre- 

 hend Medical, Chemical, Anatomical 



and Surgical Investigations, aj)plical)le 

 to Forensic Practice, for the instruct i(;u 

 and guidance of Coroners, Magistrates, 

 Counsel and Medical Witnesses, with 

 a copious appendix of Statutes, Cases 

 and Decisions. 



Mr. Geo. Soane has in the press, a 



translation of the Faiistus of (ioetlie ; 



alsoof Saugerliebe, a proverbial legend, 



by tiie Baron de la Motte Feiuiuc. 

 Tlie Royal LTniA'ersal I)ispensai-y for 



Children, St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors' 



Commons., founded in 181(5, by Dr. 



John B.Davis, for the solepuqxjs^of 



affording prompt medical and snj;gic'd 



aid to the sick ciiildren of th«; necessi 

 MonthIjV Maij. No. 3j->. 



tons poor in all parts of llic meiropelis 

 and its vicinity, without rceomincnd;'.- 

 tion where danger ex'sts, has h( en re- 

 cesnti;,' honoured with th.e patronage of 

 the King- l^^ince ti;e cpening of this 

 )i;sti'utiou, no less than i;Ji;()2 (dject^ 

 Ir.ivo been reiievefi : and wi'.h a view 

 to increase tiie facilities to the poor for 

 assistance for fl.eir children, stations 

 have been opened in Lambeth and in 

 Sonthwark, oH'eriiig tiie same benefits 

 as the parent in-^titution in the city. 



The Rev.C. Braulky is engaged in 

 publishing a iMonthly Series of Briliili 

 Divines; No. Ill.of whicli is just pub- 

 lished, containing Arehbishoj) Leigh- 

 ton's Tiieological Lectures, after wliich 

 will succeed tlse woiks of Ilall, Dod- 

 dridge, Home, Hopkins, Watts, Bax- 

 ter, &c.; Nos. I. and II. contain Bevc- 

 ridge's Private Thoughts. 



Proposals are ciiculated for publish- 

 ing by s'.djscriplion Lc Brun's Pas- 

 sions, in Lithograpiiy, by Peter Si- 

 monau. Lithographer, it will be di- 

 vided into five parts, each part to con- 

 tain four plates or impressions, and the 

 amount of subscription for the whole 

 will be one pound, or for each part 

 separately, five shillings. 



There is at this time on sale, at the 

 Museum of Mr. Ackermann in the 

 Strand, London, one of the most splen- 

 did specimens of Bibliegraphy which 

 has ever perliaps been ofiercd to the 

 world. It consists of the History of 

 Westminster Abbey, published by Mr. 

 A. and this copy is characterized by 

 the following circumstances : the 

 letter press is on vellum, the 81 ori- 

 ginal drawings by our first arMsts have 

 been introduced, the titles of tlie draw- 

 ings and of the volunips are by the late 

 Mr. Tondiin*', and (he binding unites 

 every point of mag;ii(iceuce,having cost 

 no less than i"278. The total cost of 

 the tiirce volumes in drawings, vellum, 

 writing and binding, lias been £179fi ; 

 but the proprietor gratified with (he 

 liou(»ur of preparing such a book, asks 

 no more tiian £1.500 for it. 



The report to tlie Secretary of State, 

 fi'om the >fa(:onal Vaccine Establisli- 

 menf, dated April 12, IS2I ; states 

 that the Smali Fox has occasioned tlie 

 loss of many lives in various parts of 

 the United Kingdom since the last re- 

 port; and that not less ('lan 792 per- 

 sons have died of that distemper, with- 

 in the Bills of Mortality, in (lie course 

 of the last year. That I'le multitude in 

 many plao''" have bi'Cji so infatuated as 



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