186 New Publications. 
B. 
Bay-salt, . : : : ’ ; 2 i $b. 
Corrosive sublimate, F i 3 f 5 2 grains. 
Water, . : ‘ : ‘ ‘ ‘ 1 quart. 
BB. 
Bay-salt, . : : : 5 : ‘ ; $ Ib. 
Arsenious acid (or white oxide of arsenic), 2 20 grains. 
Boiling water, ; : : : ‘ ‘ 1 quart. 
Cc 
Bay-salt, . é 4 A : ; ‘ Z 4 Ib. 
Arsenious acid, : x . P 5 ‘ 20 grains. 
Corrosive sublimate, : ‘ : ’ : 2 grains. 
Boiling Water, ’ . : : : : 1 quart. 
The first, A 1, was the ordinary solution he used. A 2, where there 
was a tendency to mouldiness, and the animal texture was tender, as, 
although salt preserved animal matters, it sometimes destroyed the tissue. 
B was used in cases where animals contained carbonate of lime, as, in 
these cases, alum produced decomposition. For old preparations, arsenic 
was substituted for corrosive sublimate, as in BB, but where there was a 
tendency to too much softening, the corrosive sublimate should be added 
as in C. 
Prof. Owen stated that these solutions were better than alcohol for the 
preservation of nervous matter. In the course of his remarks he called 
attention to the dissections of the invertebrate amimals, made by Mr 
Goadby, many of which are at present in the Museum of the College of 
Surgeons. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
1. Review of a System of Mineralogy by James D. Dana. These 
pages contains a full, and, on the whole, a judicious critique of the au- 
thor’s valuable System of Mineralogy, a work noticed in a former num- 
ber of this Journal. 
2. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. 1 vol., pp. 390. 
John Churchill, London. Although we do not agree with the ingenious 
author of this interesting volume in several of his speculations, yet we 
can safely recommend it to the attention of our readers, who will per- 
ccive, from the subjoined table of Contents, that the subjects discussed are 
of an attractivz nature. 
Contents.—The Bodies of Space—Their arrangement and formation 
—Constituent materials of the Earth, and of the other Bodies of Space 
—The Earth formed—Era of the Primary Rocks—Commencement of 
Organic Life—Sea Plants, Corals, &c.—Era of the old Red Sandstone 
—Fishes abundant—Secondary Rocks—Era of the Carboniferous For- 
mation—Land formed—Commencement of Land Plants—Era of the 
