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: A SRO HEL fh? 298 DR read 232 38. 
ore ste eS OS ees “dfter ss add | 3, 
121. + a: Prs. Sophia born. 
Other phenomena, -- ++ 420 7 read 4-19 4. 
124. Head of last column, for D. M. -- H.M. 
1253,.°% oa 1 day, es +» 1 5 53 34 -» 1 6 53 34. 
126, -- -SOuueenieececdh 7 ne er 
133. +» Full moon, .. +. 1 O11 *» 1 O11. 
oe Other phenomena, 2 4 42 «> 2 3 30. 
Add 29 10 22 DBS. 
134, -- ++ ++ Declin. North -- South. 
Last column but one, fiir add ++ subtract. 
136, for % Gr. Elong. 5 day read 54, 
138. °°.) **11 day ++ for 191 85 read 191 58. 
143. Arietis,..29 ec ee we 41 25 2 ere ee 2 
.e +*30 ++ ++ 2. 592036 «4+ 59 20 30. 
144. .. third line «- «+ six -- at VI. 
Explanation, &c. 
146, line 15 from bottom, insert if. 
161, Ine 21, for 1,8 oe read on apf. 
Soko. Ve eae OS Soe ats ae het 
Extract, &c. ee 11 from the bottom, insert as. 
line 21, for Trial read Trials. 
XXXV. Notices respecting New Books. 
Philosophie Anatomique: Des Organes Respiratoires sous lerap- 
port de la Détermination de l’ Identité de leurs Piéces Os- 
seuses, (8c. Par le Chevalier Geoffroy St. Hilaire, &c.— 
Anatomical Philosophy : Of the Respiratory Organs in respect 
to the Determination of their Osseous Parts. By Chevalier 
G. St. Hilaire, &c. 
[ For the following review we are indebted to the pen of M. Cuvier.] 
To generalize, to abstract, to reason well or ill—such is the ex- 
clusive prerogative of man ; such also is the source of his power 
and of his weakness, of his intelligence and of his errors. It is 
the principle of these high qualities which is equally the basis of 
judicial astrology and of astronomy; of the natural systems of 
ancient philosophers, and of the modern experimental philosophy ; 
of the morals of Socrates, the politics of Machiavel, and the phi- 
losophism of Voltaire. To this principle it is owing that we have 
wandered from experience in the study of the sciences of obser- 
vation, that we have returned to it, and that we are perhaps 
wandering from ft again. 
In these variations there is otherwise nothing which ought to 
surprise us. They have their origin in the very nature of the 
» Sciences, in which observation and reasoning predominate ich; 
nately ; 
