Royal Medical Society of Edinlurgh. 141 



Mr. Maurice intends in the course of the work to prove that 

 the tamed Tower of Babel was a Temple to the Sun, and the 

 whole of that vast city was constructed upon an astronomical 

 basis — showing also the high advance of the ancient race of 

 Fire-worshippers (its founders) in metallurgic science, in archi- 

 tectural design, in geometry, in mechanics, in hydraulics, in the 

 art of engraving, colouring, &c. Together with strictures on the 

 Babylonian bricks, and their inscriptions, preserved in the British 

 Museum — On the ruins of PersepoHs, or Chelminar; including a 

 dissertation on a lately discovered Persepolitau monument, of 

 high importance to astronomers, and supposed to contain a por- 

 tion of the ancient Babylonian Sphere — On the presumed An- 

 titjuitv of the Arch, no where to he found amid these rains — On 

 the Origin of Alphabetic Writing, and various other subjects con- 

 nected with tiie history of the most ancient periods. With il- 

 lustrative engravings. 



The work will be published by subscription. Price one 

 guinea. 



Su!)scriptions received by the Author at the British Museum ; 

 also by Mr. Murray, Albemarle-street; and Mr. Richardson, 23, 

 Cornhill. 



Mr. Ryan, who lately obtained the prize of 100 guineas with 

 the gold medal from the Society of Arts, for his new system of 

 ventilating coal-mines, has in the press A Treatise on Mining 

 and Ventilation, and embracing in a particular manner the sub- 

 ject of the Coal Stratification of Great Britain and Ireland; with 

 the most approved methods of discovering, v/orking, and venti- 

 lating the same. 



Mr. Forster is collecting subjects for a v%-ork he intends to pub- 

 lish, Ou the generic Forms of the Crania in Animals. 



A new Edition of the Rev. Mr. Harmer's Observations on ra- 

 rious Passages of Scripture, with many important additions and 

 corrections, by Adam Clarke, LL.D. F.S.A , will be published 

 in a few days, elegantly printed in four octavo volumes. 



XXXVIII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



KOVAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



J. HIS Society has proposed the following as a Prize- question : 

 *' What are the chemical changes produced in the air by the 

 growth of plants ? and do tiicy ou tlie wiiole purify or deteriorate 

 the atmosphere ?" 



A set 



