396 Scientific Intelligence. — Statistics. 



tion with carbon, a steel much more homogeneous and perfect 

 than that obtained under the same circumstances by the cemen- 

 tation of iron. — Quarterly Journal, July-Sept. 1829. 



STATISTICS. 



34. German Universities. — In the Isis we have the following 

 " characteristic" of the German universities. Gottingen is emi- 

 nent in history ; Halle in theology ; Leipzig in philology ; 

 Heidelberg in law ; Bonn in natural history ; Tubingen in theo- 

 logy ; Konigsberg, philosophical tendency of the natural sciences; 

 WUrtzbwg in medicine ; Berlin, eminent in all the sciences ; 

 Munich, eminent in all the sciences ; Kiel active, but kept down 

 by the University of Copenhagen. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS 



1. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, 

 Durham, and Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Vol. I. Part I. 4to. pp. 130. 

 With Eleven Plates. 



In the years 1806 and 1807, the Wernerian and Huttonian 

 Theories of the Earth were publicly canvassed in the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh. These spirited discussions excited much 

 attention, and gave rise, and nearly at the same time, to the 

 Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, and the 

 Geological Society of London. The activity and success of 

 these the two parent geological societies of this country has 

 been great. They have besides excited a general desire for 

 geological knowledge throughout the empire, as is shewn by the 

 establishment of geological and natural history societies from the 

 Lands-End of England to the capital of the Highlands of Scot- 

 land. The Cornwall Society has published two volumes of me- 

 moirs. The Newcastle Society has just published vol. i. part i. 

 in 4to. of their memoirs, under the title of " Transactions of the 

 Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne." As the title of the volume implies, this So- 

 ciety, like the Wernerian, extends its views to other branches of 

 natural history besides geology, although the latter is the promi- 

 nent subject. It contains six papers on zoology, one on botany, 

 and seven on geology. The first and fifth papers contain details 



