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_ eight specimens; they are from ninety four distinct meteorites, twenty 
~ five of which are of meteoric iron. Their physical characters are 
quite fully described by M. Parrscn, and much information is added 
with regard to their geographical history. A table exhibiting their 
commerical value appended to the work, increases much its interest. 
The value of the Elbogen meteorite (iron) patecoaot 141 Vienna pounds* 
is stated at 10,000 florins. 
The Agram siieteniees ahighing 70 Bounds, at : 10,000 
An Atacama specimen, ‘“ & <M \5Speloth, 508 = 
Weston (Connecticut) meteoric a wiigane 3 i: 19.4 
Nashville (Tennessee) ‘ 122 QO. 55h 
——— (Virginia) o $s 35 5 36 CS 
. Works of the Exploring Expedition—Two of the scientific vol- 
umes of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. Witxes are just leaving 
the press, one by Horatio Haui on Ethnography and Philology, the 
other by James D. Dana on Zoophytes, including descriptions of species 
of corals. The latter is to be accompanied by an atlas of sixty one 
folio plates, containing several hundred figures, with colored drawings of 
the animals of many species. 
4. Die Rizopodi Caratteristect dei Terreni Sopracretacei, or On 
the Characteristic Rhizopodi of the Supracretaceous deposits; by G. 
MicuELotti. Modena, 1841.—This valuable memoir contains descrip- 
tions of these minute shells from different parts of Europe, and is ac- 
companied by three plates, containing figures of twenty four species. 
Dr. Manretu will soon publish ‘* Thoughts on Animalcules, or 
a glimpse of the invisible world, revealed by the microscope, with 
twelve plates, containing — ae figures of living Infusoria, and 
occupying about sixteen sheets. 
Also by the same author, the seventh edition, with additions, of 
. “ Thoughts on a Pebble.” 
The author’s “ Wonders of Geology” are ready for a new edition, and 
he is preparing also, “‘ A Geological Ramble round the Isle of Wight,” 
and * Popular Lectures on the Nervous System.” 
Dr. Manreti read, May 14, 1845, before the Geological Society, 
“ Notes on the Microscopical Examination of the Chalk and Flint of the 
S. E. of England.”—See Mag. Nat. Hist., Aug. 1845. 2 
6. Mr. Murcutson’s long expected work on Russia, in two quart eg 
volumes, is published. Ss 
7. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mowtisley tn 
the year 1842, and to Oregon and California in 1843-44; by Brevet 
‘* The Vienna wet is about one = — than the English, i, e. 100 pounds 
English—S1 pounds Austrian. The loth==one sixteenth of a Vienna pound. 
The florin—forty eight and a half cents. 
