2^0 Notices respecting New Books. 



usual medical formulae arranged in classes : botanical practice 

 of medicine, offered as hints to regular practitioners to improve 

 the art. 



This work is meant to supply the deficiencies of the present 

 College Pharmacopoeias, which, being merely intended to direct 

 the preparation of the medicines most usually employed by re- 

 gular practitioners, are of course defective in regard to the very 

 numerous articles that are kept in the retail shops to supply their 

 other customers ; as medicines, perfumery, liqueurs, sauces, Bri- 

 tish wines, paints, varnishes, &c. 



Mr. Luke Howard will shortly publish, in two volumes, a work 

 entitled " The Climate of London, deduced from Meteorological 

 Observations made at dift'erent Places in the Neighbourhood of 

 the Metropolis." Vol. 1 will contain an Introduction relative to 

 the construction and uses of several meteorological instruments; 

 tables of observations for ten years, with notes and results ; ac- 

 counts of collateral phaenomena in other parts of the world, and 

 occasional dissertations. Vol. 2 will contain a methodical ac- 

 count of the climate of London, under the several heads of the 

 Winds, Barometer, Temperature, Rain, Evaporation, Electricity, 

 &c. deduced from the facts contained in the first volume ; with 

 copious general tables, and an index to the whole work. To 

 which will be added, An Essay on the Modifications of Clouds, 

 by the same Author, several times heretofore printed. 



The first volume will appear in a few weeks. - 



A Prospectus has just appeared of a new and corrected edition 

 of the Delphin Classics ; with the Variorum Notes appended. 

 To be entitled "The Regent's Edition." To be printed and edited 

 by A. J. Valpy, M.A. late Fellow of Pembroke College, Ox- 

 ford. 



The whole will be printed unifoinily in octavo, price \Ss. in 

 boards, each part, to subscribers, and 1/. If. to non-subscribers. 

 Each part will contain 672 closely printed pages, without re- 

 ference to the conclusion of any author, so that the subscribers 

 may bind each author in as many volumes as they please, and 

 arrange them alphuleiically or chronologically, as most con- 

 venient. 



Some copies will be struck off on very fine thick royal paper, 

 withalarge margin, and hot-pressed, price to subscribers \l. 16j , 

 to non-subscribers 21. 2s. each part. The price will be raised 

 higher to non-subscribers, as the work advances. 



The whole will make about 120 or 130 parts — and twelve parts 

 will be printed in the year. 



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