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London. 1848. This splendid volume, so creditable to the liberality of 

 the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, and honourable to the 

 Author, is a worthy successor to the famous Account of the Bell Rock 

 Lighthouse, by Robert Stevenson, the distinguished Engineer, and father 

 of the author of the present work. 



8. The Physical Atlas. A series of Maps and Notes, illustrating 

 the Geographical Distribution of Natural Phenomena. By A. K. John- 

 ston, F.R.G.S., and Professor H. Berghaus of Berlin. One volume folio. 

 Blackwood, Edinburgh. This beautiful work is now finished. We sub- 

 join the followiiig Table of the Maps for the information of our readers: 

 — 1. Meteorology. — Plate 1. Map of Isothermal Lines. 2. Chart of 

 the Geographical Distribution of the Currents of Air. 3. Hyetographie 

 or Rain Map of the World. 4. Hyetographie or Rain Map of Europe. 



5. Chart of the Polarising Structure of the Atmosphere. 2. Hydro- 

 graphy .—VlaXe 1. Physical Chart of the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Physical 

 Chart of the Indian Ocean. 3. Physical Chart of the Pacific Ocean. 

 4. Tidal Chart of the British Seas. 5. River Map of Europe and Asia. 



6. River Map of America. 3. Geology.— V\&ie 1. Mountain Systems 



of Europe. 2. Geological Structure of the Globe. 3. Mountain Chains 

 in Europe and Asia. 4. Mountain Chains in North America. 5. Mountain 

 Chains in South America. 6. Map of the Glacier Regions. 7. Pheno- 

 mena of Volcanic Action. 8. Comparative Views of Remarkable Geolo- 

 gical Phenomena. 9. and 10. Palaeontological Map of the British Islands. 



4. Zoology and Botany. — Plate 1. Map of Botanical Geography. 



2. Distribution of Food Plants. 3. Distribution of Quadrumana, Eden- 

 tata, Marsupiala, and Pachydermata. 4. Distribution of the Carni- 

 vora. o. Distribution of Animals of the orders Rodentia and Rumi- 

 nantia. 6. Distribution of Birds. 7. Distribution of Reptiles. 8. 

 Ethnographic Map of Europe. 9. Ethnographic Map of British Islands. 

 It augurs well for the advance of Physical Geography in this country, 

 to find the Physical Atlas rapidly increasing in sale, and becoming a 

 standard work in our seminaries of education. The letter-press accom.- 

 panying the Plates, which occupies 100 folio pages, is illustrative and 

 valuable. 



9. The Enthological Journal, No. I., just published. 



10. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society of Philadel- 

 phia, Vol. X. New Series. Part I. Quarto. 



11. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Octavo. 



The different Journals, with the exception of Poggendorfs Annalen 

 and the Bibliotheque Universelle. received regularly. * 



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