216 New Publications. 



4. Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, containing a clear Ex- 

 position of their Principles and Practice. By A. Ure, M,D., 

 F.R.S., &c. Illustrated with 1240 engravings in wood. 8vo, 

 pp. 1344. Longman and Company. 1839. 



The printing of this very useful work is now finished. 'We 

 have only to add to our former commendation, that we doubt 

 not it will ere long find a place in every manufactory and 

 workshop in the country. 



6. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Edited by Mr Prinsep. 

 Numbers for August, September, October, and November, 1839. 

 Calcutta ; and Messrs W. H. Allen and Co., London. 



In these numbers we find the following articles immediately 

 connected with physical science : — 



August : — Report of the Coal discovered in the Tenasserim 

 Provinces, by Dr Heifer. Note on a species of Arctonix from 

 Arracan, by Dr G. Evans, Curator As. Soc. Museum. Sep- 

 tember : — Botanico-AgTicultural account of the protected Sikh 

 States, by M. P. Edgeworth, Esq., C. S. Masuri. Extracts 

 from the Mohit (the Ocean), a Turkish work on Navigation in 

 the Indian Seas, translated and communicated by Professor 

 Joseph Von Hammer. Note on the New Zealand Caterpillars, 

 by G. Evans, Esq. Table of Mortality for ages from birth to 

 twenty years, framed from the Registers of the Lower Orphan 

 School, Calcutta, by H. T. Princep, Esq. October : — Report of 

 a Visit made to the supposed Coal-field at Bidjeegurh (Vi- 

 jayagadha), by Mr George Osborne. Report on ten speci- 

 mens of Coal from Captain Burnes. Note on the Animal pro- 

 ductions of the Tenasserim Provinces, by J. W. Heifer, Esq. 

 M.D. On a new species of Pheasant from Thibet, by B, H. 

 Hodgson, Esq. — Population and Mortality in Calcutta. No- 

 vember : — Report on the Copper Mines of Kumaon, by Capt. 

 H. Drummond, 3d B. L. C. Observations on six new speci- 

 mens of Cyprinidae, with an outline of a new classification of 

 the family, by J. M'Clelland, Esq. Bengal Medical Establish- 

 ment. Report upon the Coal-beds of Assam (submitted to 

 Government by the Committee appointed to investigate the 

 Coal and Iron resources of the Bengal Presidency, as a sup- 

 plement to their first printed Report). 



