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witll additions, is in the press, and will be forthwith published 

 by Messrs. Underwood of Fleet-street. 



This edition will contain a succinct and lucid view of those 

 discoveries which have of late distinguished the rapid and brilliant 

 march of chemical science. 



The article of safely -lamp'> for mines, and account of experi- 

 ments made by the new bi0W-j)ipc v.iih a condensed mixture of 

 oxygen and hyilrtigi: n, will possess considerable interest. 



The publication of Dr. Spurzlicim, containing a Reply to the 

 antagonists of his doctriue, so long expected, is at length issued 

 from the press in Edinburgh. It contains a full answer to the 

 various objections raised against his new views of the functions of 

 the brain by the several Reviews, and by Dr. Gordon in his late 

 pamphlet on this subject. 



The scientific reader will be less interested in the severe ani- 

 madversions of Dr. Spurzheim on his adversaries, than in the 

 excellent summary of his peculiar doctrines, which he has com- 

 pressed in so small a compass, in the course of a series of ex- 

 planations and answers to objections which the late controversy 

 had ffiven birth to. 



IM.Fant, Professor of History in the University of Upsal, has 

 published the prospectus of a work to be entitled Scriptores 

 Renim Suecicarion Medii JEvi. There has been long wanting 

 in Sweden a collection of the chronicles, diplomas, and other 

 historical monuments of the middle age. The lare King Gusta- 

 vus III. gave orders to M. Nordin, bishop of Hernsesand, to col- 

 lect the various monuments scattered in different archives and 

 libraries, some in MS. and others inaccurately printed. M. Nor- 

 din proceeded to Stockholm, and occupied himself for ten years 

 with this work; but having returned to his diocese after the death 

 of Gustavus III. he could not continue his enterprise, and the 

 materials which he had collected remained in his private library. 

 At his death his heirs wished to sell at a high price this impor- 

 tant collection: the Prince Royal bought it. and presented it to 

 the library of the University of Upsal. The reigning King of 

 Sweden has ordered it to be published at the expense of the 

 State. M. Fant has been directed to revise it, to complete it, 

 and to give an edition similar to that of Langebeck's collection 

 entitled Scriptora Rarum Daiucarum. This collection of the 

 historians of Sweden will therefore soon appear: the first volume 

 is ill the press; it will consist of 150 sheets; — the entire work 

 v/ill fill three volumes in folio, and the price of each volume will 

 be only about fifteen shillings Engli^sh. 



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