212 Miscellanies. 
30. Chemical Tables, exhibiting the present state of our knowl- 
edge in regard to the chemical and  physteal properties of simple and 
compound bodies, by James F. W. Johnston, A. M., F. R.S. £., 
F.G.S., &. &c. Part I. . Edinburgh, 1836. Pit months 
since we received a note from the author of these tables, accom- 
panying a copy, and also a blank schedule for chemical information, 
which was published in our last number, (p. 414.) Nothing but 
want of space prevented our noticing them at thattime. The tables 
are drawn up at the-request of the British Association, and they 
present another proof of the services which that body is constantly 
rendering to science. Prefixed to these tables is an explanation 
of their object and use. Dr. Johnston states it as a prime object to 
show what we do not know, as well as what we do; and he justly 
remarks, that some will be surprised to find how tenorans we are in 
many particulars of the most familiar bodies. He uses the symbols 
of Berzelius and the German chemists. Part Ist commences with 
inorganic bodies, and the first section contains an exhibition of the 
most important chemical and physical properties of the non-metallic 
elementary substances, and of their mutual combinations. Such a 
is calculated to be highly yee and to enlist new laborers in 
the field of original research. 
NEW JOURNALS. 
31. Magazine of Zoology and Botany ; conducted by Sir Wm. 
Jardine, Bart., P. J. Selb y, Esq., and Dr. Johnston.—The first 
No. of a Journal bearing the foregoing title was published last June. 
Four numbers—those for June, August, October, and December, 
have come to hand. If we may, from these numbers, judge what 
its character is to be, it will take the lead in its own departments, as 
well for original research and accurate monographs, as for a succinet 
and interesting abstract of all that is new, both in facts and the issues 
of the press. ‘The names of its conductors are too justly celebrated 
to gain additional lustre from any thing we can say of them. Its 
character, we learn from the prospectus, is to be more scientific than 
that of any of the pre-existing journals of Natural History, and thus 
far it is well sustained. 
Spi fNipadns Records of Science.—It is now nearly two pei 
since the first number of this excellent Journal made its app 
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