FanMons. 313 



occurred, however, precisely from the want of that kind of infor- 

 mation which it is Mr. Sowerby's object to diffuse. 



EATABLE MUSHROOMS. 



Agaricus campestris, 

 cantharellus, 

 cinnamomeus, 

 deliciosus, 

 pratensis, 

 violaceus, 



Boletus edulis. 



Boletus hepaticus, 

 Ciavaria muscoides, 

 Helvella esculenta, 

 Hydnum imbricatum, 



repandum. 

 Tuber album, 



cibarium. 



POISONOUS. 



Agaricus Georgii, I Agaricus muscarius, 

 virosus. 



Dr. Spurzheim has just published a new edition of his Phy- 

 siognomical .System. It contains a great deal of new matter, as 

 the Doctor has made very considerable improvements in the 

 science since his arrival in England. Among the many dis- 

 coveries which Gall and Spurzheim have made, none are perhaps 

 more curious than those relating to hydrocephalus, and its ef- 

 fects on the structure of the brain. In pages 157 and 158 of 

 the above work, are some very curious observations relating to 

 the paper originally presented to the National Institute of France 

 in 1808, and on a paper read at the Royal Society in 1814, the 

 substance of which will be further discussed in a future number 

 of our Journal. 



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LIX, Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles, 

 Correspondence of M. Van Mons. 



[Continued from p. 232.] 



W H Y do men of science persist in saying that meteoric 

 stones fall from the heavens, as if planets could contain within 

 their bodies a force of projection superior to their force of 

 gravity, and capable of pushing their matter beyond the limits 

 of their attraction, or as if masses so enormous could be formed 

 in the air ; where, beside, there exists no base of bodies as in 

 azote, without an extrication of air, felt over the whole globe 

 being the effect of it. We no longer hear of buildings, men, or 

 animals, which the fall of such kind of stone has injured* : the 



• Here we beg leave to remind our valued correspondent, that in the 

 very last shinver of meteoric stones, recorded as having fallen in the South 

 of France, the roof of a hou'-c was injured. Vide Phil. Mag. vol. xliv. 

 JJ. 100. 



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