76 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



Andrew Ure, M.D. F.R.S. &c. has in the Press a large Octavo 

 Volume, entitled " A New System of Geology, in which the Great 

 Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature are Reconciled at 

 once to Modern Science and Sacred History." The Author has un- 

 dertaken to solve, on the known laws of Physics and Chemistry, the 

 various Enigmas relative to the Temperature of the Antediluvian 

 Globe, and to the Gradation of the Organic Remains of its successive 

 Strata. 



This work will be illustrated by Copper-plate Engravings of Shells, 

 characteristic of the Strata and their superposition, of the Bone-Ca- 

 verns, and of Casts of Fossil Plants ; besides about 50 Wood En- 

 gravings, representing the most curious Animal Inhabitants of the 

 primaeval World described by Cuvier, and other Fossil Zoologists. 

 The Volume will appear about the end of January. 



Just published. 

 A Circular, explanatory of Skene's Patent as applicable to Steam 

 Navigation, and Undershot Water-Mills. London, 8vo. pp. 22. 

 and two lithographs. 



This tract contains a list of the agents for the disposal of the right 

 of using Mr. Skene's invention, the specification of the patent, some 

 remarks by the patentee,, an account of some experiments with steam- 

 vessels having paddles constructed in the manner proposed, a state- 

 ment of the saving of fuel by the invention, and a notice of its appli- 

 cation to water-mills. 



It would be impossible for us to give any correct ideas of the nature 

 of this invention, without reference to plates. Experience alone 

 can prove its merits ; but however applicable Mr. Skene's floats 

 may be to the slow motion of undershot water-wheels, we think their 

 successful application to the rapid rotation of the paddle-wheels of a 

 steam-vessel a matter of some doubt. 



The Englishman's Almanack ; or Daily Calendar of General Infor- 

 mation for the Year 1 829, comprising, besides the usual contents of 

 an Almanack, the Calendar of Flora, Meteorological and other Tables, 

 &c. &c. 



The compilation of this Almanack does much credit to the Editor 

 and to the Stationers' Company, for whom it is printed. The very 

 unfair attack made on them last year on account of some of the al- 

 manacks which were still in demand, though in a course of being 

 gradually superseded by the progress of education among the people, 

 induces us to bear our testimony to the merits of those Almanacks 

 and Diaries intended for the well-informed and scientific, which have 

 long been carried on under the direction of the Company. 



LECTURES. 

 Mechanics' Institution .— On the 1st of February 1829, Dr. Joseph 

 Reade, author of " Experimental Outlines for a new Theory of 

 Vision, Light, and Colours,*' will commence a Course of Lectures 

 on Optics. 



Russell Institution .—On Monday, January 1 2th, 1829, Mr. E. W. 



Brayley, 



