94- Summarj/ Reviexv of the late Investigations 



these remarks to believe that Lavoisier was unacquainted with 

 a volume which was so well known to others, and referred to 

 in their writings. 



" Get ouvrage, ecrit dans le style de Montaigne, mais avec 

 ))lus de methode etmoins de diffusion, a cte reimprime en 1777 

 a Paris, avec des notes de M. Gabet. 



" II ctait devenu extremement rare, et la reimpression en 

 cte faite suivant I'exemplaire de la Bibliotheque du lloi. 



" Spiedman, professeur de chymie a Strasbourg, en recom- 

 mande la lecture a ses eleves dans son institution de chymie en 

 1766. 



" M. Bardeu en fait une mention honorable dans ses Re- 

 cherches Qur les maladies chimiques — meme eloge dans la 

 Mineralogie docimatique de M. Sage, &c. 



" Cette edition est d'autant plus remarquable, que Ton 

 n'avait presqu'aucun ouvrage imprime a Bazas, petit trou 

 dans le Gascoigne, oii jamais il n'y a eu ni litterateurs, ni 

 aucune autre imprimerie que celle de Guillaume Millanges, 

 qui n'y a fait qu'un court sejour." 



Next to the " Tractatus de Respiratione" of John Mayow 

 of Oxford, " Lugd. Batavor 1671," the " Praelectiones 

 Chymicai" of Freind, of which a translation was published at 

 London in 1729, have interested me. In this last the attractive 

 forces of chemical combinations; — the weight acquired by 

 "calcination;" — "fermentation" as "raised by elastic par- 

 ticles ;" — the determinate forms of crystals — are all taught in a 

 masterly manner. I am yours, &c. 



Stranraer, N.B., July 10, 1823. J. Murray. 



XIX. An Account of the Observations and Experiments on 

 the Temperature of Mines, 'which have recently been made in 

 Corn'wall, and the North of England; comprising the Sub- 

 stance of various Papers on the Subject lately imblished in 

 the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Corn- 

 •walli and other Works. 



[Concluded from p. 46.] 



V. npLIE concluding paper on the Temperature of Mines, in 

 -■- the Transactions of the Cornish Geological Society 

 (vol. ii. p. 4-04), is by Mr. Moyle, who has since detailed the sub- 

 stance of it, with some additional facts, and remarks on the state- 

 ments of Mr. Fox aiid Dr. Forbes, in the Annals of Philosophy 

 for January last, p. 43 ; still more recent)}', also, in the same 

 journal, for July, p. 15, he has given some further results as to 



the 



