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The cold weather although of long duration is not severe ; but 

 the thermometer rarely descends to 15 degrees below zero of 

 Reaumur. The heat of summer is frequently oppressive. The 

 mountains which form this basin being generally calcareous, and 

 almost entirely devoid of wood ; these masses are easily heated, 

 and reflect the calorific rays in the town with great intenseness : 

 the rocks, therefore, particularly those with a south exposure, 

 contain a great number of serpents, vipers, lizards, and insects 

 in great variety. The red viper is very common there. 

 [To be continued.] 



LVIII. Notices respecting New Books. 



jyiR. Thomas Forsteii has it in contemplation to publish, in 

 the course of a few months, and to continue periodically, a work 

 entitled "Journal de Mcicorologie, avec d' Observations siir les 

 Plienomenes dc I' Atmosphere," &c. &c. Mr. Luke Howard 

 and other meteorologistshavepromisedtheir occasional assistance. 

 The object of the work will be to publish journals of meteoro- 

 logy kept in various parts of Eurojje ; together with occasional 

 essays on subjects innnediately coifnected with this science. 

 The publication and the period of the appearance of the first 

 number of the work will depend on the success the gentlemen 

 concerned in the work meet with, in receiving journals and other 

 communications from abroad. Letters on meteorology, notices 

 of meteors and other occasional phaenomena, besides regular 

 journals, are within the plan of the work. The principal object 

 of this work is to collect accounts from abroad, and to comnni- 

 uicate to the continent the discoveries made in this country, 



Mr. Sowerby, the indefatigable naturalist, of No. 2, Mead 

 Place, Lambeth, has published a most valuable Catalogue of 

 coloured Drawings of English Medicinal Plants, as a Companion 

 to the Materia Medica of the College of Physicians, The m-. 

 tention of Mr. Sowerby in his present undertaking, is to make 

 medical practitioners (whose knowledge of botany n)ay not be 

 extensive) acquainted with all the English plants which they may 

 have occasion to use. We presume we shall gratify our medical 

 and scientific readers highly by selecting the catalogue of mush- 

 rooms, as divided into eatable and poisonous, which Mr. Sower- 

 by has faithfully depicted in elegant coloured prints. The me- 

 dicinal plants, strictly so called, are fifty-two in number ; the 

 mushrooms are seventeen in number, fourteen of which are 

 patable, and only three poisonous. Many fatal accidents have 



occurredj, 



