Analj/sis of Periodical Works on Zoology and Botany. 65 



Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren ; 

 by J, Ehnes, Architect. 4to. Portrait and Ten Plates. 



Preparing for Publicatiofi, 



Early in February will be published, in one volume octavo, 

 with 14 Lithographic Plates, the First Part of an Epitome of 

 the Elementary Principles of Natural and Experimental Phi- 

 losophy ; by Professor Millington of the Royal Institution. — 

 This volume will include Mechanics, Pneumatics, Acoustics, 

 Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, and a very copious Account of the 

 Steam-Engine in its progressive and present State. The Se- 

 cond Part, when published, will include Magnetism, Electri- 

 citv, Electro-Magnetism, Optics and Astronomy. 



Captain Scoresby, whose Description of the Arctic Regions 

 excited such a lively interest not long since, and whose various 

 papers in the Transactions of Learned Societies have made 

 him favourably known to the scientific world, has now in the 

 press an Account of his Voyage to Greenland in the Summer 

 of 1822. In the course of this voyage he explored the eastern 

 coast of West Greenland, to the extent of between 700 and 

 800 geographical miles, the greater part of which may be con- 

 sidered as original discovery. He has constructed a chart, 

 founded on about 500 angles or bearings, taken at 50 diffe- 

 rent stations, most of which were determined by astronomical 

 observations. This we understand is to accompany tlie work ; 

 and it will constitute the first and only accurate map of that 

 remote and all -but inaccessible region. From traces of recent 

 inhabitation found in different places, there is reason to think 

 that the descendants of the lost colony, said to have been esta- 

 blished in West Greenland in the beginning of the 15th cen- 

 tury, and which has long excited great interest, still exist. The 

 rank which Mr. Scoresby holds as a scientific navigator, and the 

 great mterest attached to the regions which he has explored, 

 lead us to expect much gratification from this publication. 



ANALYSIS OP PERIODICAL WORKS ON ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. 



Sowerbys Mineral Conchologij. No. G6. 



By a note attached to this Number, we perceive, with much 

 pleasure, that this work will be continued by the Sons oi the 

 late Mr. Sowerby ; at the same time we venture to lunt Uiat, 

 if it is extended much further, it will become so expensive as 

 to defeat the professed object of its publication,— that ot assist- 

 incr students and collectors. It has likewise been mentioned 



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