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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



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counties, adapted for the use of land- 

 lords, land-agents, appraisers, farmers, 

 and tenants, by J. S. Bayldon. 



A gentleman, long known to the 

 literary world, is engaged on the Lives 

 of Corregio and Parraegiaiio. 



Mr. JoPLiN is about to publish. 

 Outlines of a System of Political Eco- 

 nomy, written with a view to prove to 

 government and the country, that the 

 cause of the present agricultural dis- 

 tress is entirely artificial, and to sug- 

 gest a plan for the management of tiie 

 currency, by which it may be remedied 

 now, and a recurrence of similar evils 

 prevented in future. 



A Treatise on Mental Derangement, 

 being the substance of the Gulstonian 

 Lectures delivered in the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians, in May 1822, by 

 1'raxcis Willis, m.d. is in tiie press. 



Architectural Illustrations of the 

 Public Buildings of London, are pre- 

 paring for publication. No. I. of this 

 work will appear on the 1st of April, 

 and will contain seven engravings of 

 St. Paul's Cathedral, the new entrance 

 to the House of Lords, the Temple 

 Church, and the Custom House, with 

 two sheets of letter-press. In recom- 

 mendation of this work, we need only 

 to state, that it is the joint production 

 of Messrs. BRiTTr)N and PuGiN. 



Illustrations, Graphic and Literary, 

 of Fonthill Abbey, by Mr. Brittox, 

 is announced for publication early in 

 April, and will contain twelve engra- 

 vings instead of nine, as originally 

 promised. 



Dr. Carey has in the press, the 

 Comedies of Plautus, in continuation 

 of "the Regent's Pocket Classics." 



The author of " the Cavalier," &c. 

 Las a new novel in the press, entitled, 

 the King of the Peak. 



The third volume of the Transac- 

 tions of the Literary Society of Bombay 

 is just ready for publication. 



Shortly will be published. Memoirs 

 and Select Remains of Miss Mary 

 Sbenston, who died July 2d, 1822, in 

 her eighteenth year, by her brother 

 and sister. 



The eggs of the domestic fowl have 

 lately been submitted, by Dr. William 

 Pkout, to a variety of experiments, 

 which are detailed in the " Philoso- 

 phical Transactions ;" ten of these 

 eggs, when just laid, weighed from 763 

 to 975 graiTis, averaging 875 grains 

 each ; and their speciiic gravities va- 

 ried from 1.080 to 1.090, average 

 l.OH/i; their cubic meHsmc being itbout 



3.9 inches on the average. On the 

 breaking of these eggs, and carefully 

 separating the shell and membrane 

 from the albumen, and this from the 

 yelk : the last of these were found to 

 weigh from 211 to 289, average 252 

 grains^ the second or whites weighed 

 from 394 to C05, averaging 530 grains; 

 and the shells and memhraues toge- 

 ther were froui 72 to 108, averaging 

 94 grains : so tliat with a standard fresh 

 egg, for comparison, weighing 1000 

 grains, these average weights Avould 

 be — yelk 290 grains, white 604 grains, 

 and shell and menilmme 107 grains. — • 

 An egg, which weighed at first 908 

 grains, was kept and weighed almost 

 daily during two years, at the end of 

 which time it weighed ouly3G3 grains ; 

 having very uniformly lost at the rate 

 of three-quarters of a grain per day : it 

 had not become rotten, at least had no 

 offensive smell on being broken, but 

 the whole of its contents were found, 

 in the lesser end in a solid state. At 

 the end of the first week of incubation, 

 or being sat upon by the hen, several 

 eggs, calculated according to the 

 weight of 1000 grains when quite 

 fresh, were found <m the average to 

 have lost 50 grains each : at the end of 

 the second week, the average loss was 

 found 130 grains ; and at the end of 

 the third week, or full period for 

 hatching, 160 grains had been lost out 

 of the 1000, or near one-sixth of their 

 first weights : the loss being eight 

 times that of similar eggs, naturally, 

 in the same time. Numerous analyses', 

 for ascertaining the component parts 

 of eggs, and the changes effected 

 therein during incubation, are recorded 

 in the 'I'ransactions, to which we must 

 refer; and only add, that the Doctor 

 considers the yelk analogous to the 

 milk of viviparous animals, but more 

 concentrated, and that its chief use is 

 to afl'ord a pabulum to the young chick 

 during incubation. 



The Ettrick Shepherd has a new 

 romance in the press, entitled the Pe- 

 rils of Woman. 



Dr. Siebek's interesting Travels in 

 Crete have been translated, and form 

 the current Number of " the London 

 Journal of Modern Voyages and Tra- 

 vels." They include nuich valuable 

 and original information on the ancient 

 and present state of that island, and 

 pailiculiiriy on the manners of the 

 Turks and Creeks. The translation 

 contains a correct map of Crete, and 

 other engravings. 



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