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teresting anecdotes, and is given in so popular and instructive 

 a manner as to render any previous knowledge of Natural 

 History quite unnecessary lor its perusal. 



The v.'ork however is certainly most valuable, as showing us 

 what a National Institution for the study of Natural History 

 may become under proper management ; and we cannot re- 

 frain fi-om expressing our gratitude to the editor M. Royer, 

 who has thus provided us with an authentic description of the 

 only public establishment of which we have reason to em^y 

 France the possession. 



Two editions of the work have been printed, the one in 

 French and the other in English, and both are ornamented 

 with a number of excellent engravings of the romantic Jardiii 



du Roi. 



A Series of Lectures upon the Elements of Chemical Sci- 

 ence, lately delivered at the Surry Institution; comprising 

 the Basis of the new Theory of Crystallization, and Diagrams 

 to illustrate the Elementary Combinations of Atoms, particu- 

 lar Theories of Electrical Influence, and of Flame ; with a full 

 Description of the Author's Blow-Pipe, and its Powers and 

 Effects, when charged with ceytain Gases, 8:c. &c. with eight 

 Plates. By Goldsworthy Gurney. In Octavo. 



An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, Theoretical and Prac- 

 tical ; with Improvements in some of the more chflicult Parts 

 of the Science, particularly in the general Demonstration of 

 the Binomial Theorem, the Solution of Equations of the 

 higher Orders, the Summation of Infinite Series, &c. Dedi- 

 cated, with Permission, to Dr. Gregory, Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in the Royal Military Academy. By J. R. Young, 

 Teacher of the Mathematics, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy, 

 &c. In Octavo. 



Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. Vol. XII. Part II. 8vo, 

 with several coloured Plates. Published by the Medical and 

 Chirurgical Society of London. 



Fonnularly for the Preparation and Mode of Emplojing 

 several New Remedies ; namely, the Nux Vomica, Moqihine, 

 Prussic Acid, Strychnin, Veratrine, the active Prhiciples of 

 Cinchonas, Emetine, Iodine, &c. with an Introduction, and 

 copious Notes. By Charles Thomas Haden, Surgeon to the 

 Chelsea and Brompton Dispensary, &c. Translated from the 

 French of Magendie. In 12mo. 



An Improved System of Arithmetic (in two pai'ts), for the 

 use of Schools and Counting-Houses. By Daniel Dowling, 

 Master of the Mansion House Academy, Highgate ; and Au- 

 thor of the Key to Dr. Ilutton's Course of Mathematics. 

 Part I. Second Edition. 



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