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to give effect to the proposition which we haye had the honour 
to make, it will for the future not have to remark any omission 
in the labours which may be laid before it: and this arrange- 
ment will contribute to diffuse the spirit of research and the 
taste for accuracy, amongst that rising generation, full of talent 
and of zeal, with which our ports abound. 
[To be continued.] 
XLVI. Notices respecting New Books. 
Remarks on the Cultivation of the Silk Worm ; with additional 
Observations, made in Italy, during the summer of 1825. By 
John Murray, F.S.A., F.L.S. Glasgow, 1825 pp. 29. 
HE substance of this useful tract formed an article in the 
Edinburgh Journal of Science, No. III.; and the author 
has now made various additions to it, embracing the most 
material parts of Count Dandolo’s work on his improved cul- 
ture of the silk worm. In an appendix, an account is given of 
the chemical nature of silk, &c., and some particulars of the 
history of its use in the manufacture of clothing, together with 
an outline of its preparation for that purpose, as now practised 
in Italy. 
Descriptive Account of a Shower Bath, constructed on a princi- 
ple not hitherto applied to that machine ; to which is added, 
that of an apparatus for restoring suspended animation ; 
and an invention for forming a line of communication in ship- 
wreck; and a fire-escape, in cases of fire. By the same Author. 
Glasgow, 1826. 
In Mr. Murray’s shower bath, the column of water in the 
vase above is supported by the resisting atmosphere; and the 
superiority of his improvement consists, in the numerous repe- 
titions which may be made from the same supply of water :— 
The intervals may be shortened or prolonged at pleasure, 
while the duration of each is under the complete control of 
the patient, and the water may be suffered to fall in a continued 
shower of any required division of the streams, attenuating 
even toa gentle dew. 
Just Published. 
The Zoological Journal, No. viii. completing the second 
volume: conducted by Thomas Bell, Esq. F.L.S., J. G. Chil- 
dren, Esq. F.R. & L.S., J. D. C. Sowerby, Esq. F.L.S., and 
G. B. Sowerby, Esq. F.L.S. Also No. II. of Supplementary 
Plates to the Zoological Journal. 
Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, theoretical and 
gt Sold By Thomas Reid, Edinburgh, Hon. Mem. of the 
orshipful Company of Clockmakers, London. 
Vol. 67. No. 336. April 1826. 20 XLVII. Pro- 
