454 Notices i'esf>ecting New Boohs. 



P.S. I saw the phaenomenon alluded to in the Journals, '\nLco, 

 in longitude 4' 27° 21' 50". It appeared in the telescope just 

 above Regulus, like a xmall yellow star. 



CVI. Notices respecting Netv Books. 



The Philosophical Transactiovs of the Royal Society of London 

 for 1817, Part I. has just been pubHshed, and contains the 

 following papers : 



I. XlN Account of the Circulation of the Blood in the Class 

 Vermes of Linnaeus, and the Principle explained in which it differs 

 from that in the higher Classes. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. 

 V.P.R.S. — II. Observations on the llirudo vulgaris. By 

 James Rawlins Johnson, M.D. F.L.S. &c. — HI. On the Effects 

 of Galvanism in restoring the due Action of the Linigs. By 

 A. P. Wilson Philip, Physician in Worcester. — IV. An Account 

 of some Experiments on the Torpedo Eltctrus, at La Rochelle. 

 By John T. Todd, Esq. — V. A Description of a Process by whicli 

 Corn tainted with Must may be completely purified. By Charles 

 Ilatchett, Esq. F.R.S. — VI, Observations on an astringent Ve- 

 getable Substance from China, By William Thomas Brandc, 

 Esq. Sec. R.S. — VII. Some Researches on Flame. By Sir 

 Humphry Davy, LL.D, F,R.S, V.P.R S, — VIII. Some new 

 Experiments and Observations on the Combustion of gaseous 

 Mixtures, with an Accotmt of a Method of preserving a con- 

 tinued Light, in Mixtures of inflammable Gases and Air, without 

 Flame, By Sir H.Davy, LL.D. &;c. &c.-^IX. De la Structure 

 des Vaisseaux Anglais, consideroe dans ses derniers Perfectionue- 

 nients. Par Charles Diipin, Correspondant de I'Institut de 

 France, &c — X. On anew fulminating Platinum. By Edmund 

 Davy, Esq. Professor of Chemistry, and Secretary to the Cork 

 Institution — -XI On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars. By John 

 Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal, F R S. Appendix to Mr. Pond'.^ 

 Paper on Parallax. — XII. An Account of some Fossil Remains 

 of the Rhinoceros discovered by Mr, Whitley in a Cavern in- 

 closed in the Limestone Rock from which he is forming the 

 Break-water at Plymouth. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P, 

 R.S. — Meteorological Journal. 



Sir John Sinct.aik's Code of Agriculture. 



However doubtful or mysterious the art of Agriculture may 



have formerly been considered, yet by the various improvements 



which have been made in that art, and the great increase of 



knowledge which has of late years been amassed, the difficulties 



attending 



