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been much improved, and it is with confirmed satisfaction that 
we repeat our recommendation of it, as a most useful manual te 
every student of chemistry. 
Mr. Accum has in the press, a third edition of Chemical 
Amusement ; comprehending a Series of instructive arid striking 
Experiments in Chemistry, which are easily performed, and un- 
attended by danger. With plates by Lowry, 
Essays on the Proximate Mechanical Causes of the generat 
Phenomena of the Universe. By Sir RicHarp PuiLuips, 
12mo. pp. 96. 
The present is a republication, in a connected form, of a series 
of essays, which appeared in the course of last year in the Phi- 
losophical Magazine and other periodical works, from the pen of 
Sir Richard Phillips, on his New Theory of the Universe. The 
ingenious author, in a brief preface which he has annexed, com- 
plains, with some acerbity, of the tardiness of the scientific world 
in acknowledging the verity of a system, in which he has himself 
all ‘‘ the confidence of a martyr.’ We would beg to refer him 
for consolation to the excellent maxim of Tacitus—/Veritas visu 
ef mora, falsa festinatione et incertis valescunt. 
Memoirs, Biographical, Literary, and Critical, of the most 
eminent Physicians and Surgeons of the present Time in Great 
Britaim; with a choice Collection of their Prescriptions, and 
Specification of the Diseases for which they were given, forming 
a complete modern extemporaneous Pharmacopeoeia : to which is 
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Institutions of the Metropolis, both scientific and charitable. 
XXII. Proceedings of Learned Societies, 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
Caleutta, Feb. 25—A Meeting of the Asiatic Society was 
held on Wednesday, the 11th, at which the Lord Bishop pre- 
sided. 
A letter was read from M, Cuvier, perpetual secretary to the 
Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, introducing, in the name. 
of the Academy, M. Diard to the favourable attention of the 
Asiatic Society. M. Diard is one of the correspondents of the 
Royal Museum of Natural History. M. Cuvier at the same 
time presented several works of his own composition. Mémoires 
pour servir a U Histoire de V Anatomie des Molusques have beem 
received, 
° A let- 
