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nearly half an hour in a tub of warm grains, which were 

 previously ascertained by the other hand not to be too hot, 

 the whole hand became blistered in a most alarming manner, 

 and sloughs formed at the extremities of the fingers. In a se- 

 cond case, the ulnar nerve had been divided by the surgeon for 

 the cure of a painful affection of the arm ; the consequence of 

 which operation was, that the patient was incapable of washing 

 in water at a temperature that was quite harmless to every duly 

 vitalized part, without suffering from vesication and sloughs. 



"11. It follows then that the pathologist may frequently 

 derive important conclusions from the doctrines of chemistry, 

 although we must deeply regret that this department of me- 

 dical knowledge, like that of physiology, should have suffered 

 from too hasty generalization : but let no one attempt to tole- 

 rate his apathy, or to encourage his despair, by a reference to 

 failures which have arisen on the one hand from a deficiency 

 of knowledge, and on the other from errors which are to be 

 solely attributed to a perversion of it ; — let him rather seek en- 

 couragement in the contemplation of those useful improve- 

 ments which have been derived from the judicious apjilication 

 of chemical science, and which are daily augmenting the re- 

 sources of the intelligent physician, and tending to diminish 

 the aggregate of human suffering." 



Dr. Paris concludes his work with announcing his intention 

 of following it by a volume on Animal Chemisti"y, having been 

 prevented from proceeding beyond Vegetable Chemistry, it 

 would seem, by the bulk to which the work had already ex- 

 tended ; — and we hope he will speedily fulfil this design. 



Recently piiblished. 



The Third Part of Volume XIV. of the Transactions of 

 the Linnsean Society of London, has just appeared ; and the 

 following are its contents : 



Observations on the Natural Affinities that connect the 

 Orders and Families of Birds. By Nicholas Aylward Vi- 

 gors, Esq. A.M. — Descriptions of two Species of Antelope 

 from India. By Major-General Thomas Hardwicke. — De- 

 scription of a new Species of Tailed Bat ( Taphosous of Geoff.) 

 found in Calcutta. By Major-General Hardwicke. — Anato- 

 mical Observations on the Natural Group of Tunicata, with 

 the Description of three Species collected in Fox Channel 

 during the late Northern Expedition. By William Sharp 

 MacLeay, Esq., A.M. — A Description of a new Species of 

 Scolopax lately discovered in the British Islands: with Ob- 

 servations on the Anas glocitans of Pallas, and a Description 

 of the Female of that Species. By N. A. Vigors, Esq. A.M. 



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