Miscellanies. 399 



15. Elements of Botany; by Asa. Gray, M. D.> Memb. of the Cce- 

 sar. Leopold. -Car. Nat. Curios., and of the Lyceum of Nat. Hist. 

 of New York. — A volume bearing the above title has just been pre- 

 sented to the public, by Dr. Asa Gray, of New York, a gentleman 

 well known for his devotion to the study of plants. It treats exten- 

 sively, of vegetable organography and physiology, and of the prin- 

 ciplesof classification. It is furnished with a dictionary of botanical 

 terms, and is enriched with a large number of illustrative wood cuts. 

 In an appendix are given directions for collecting and preserving 

 plants, and a catalogue of the Natural Orders of the vegetable kind- 

 dom. It is the best work on the philosophy of Botany that has 

 appeared in this country, and we trust that its merits will be appre- 

 ciated by the numerous students of this science among us. 



The volume contains 428 pages in duodecimo, and is published 



by G. k, C. Carvill & Co. of New York City. 





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16. New Medical Work by G. TV. Carpenter. — Mr. G. W. Car- 

 penter, long advantageously known as an active and successful culti- 

 vator of pharmacy, has just published a " Family Medicine Chest 

 Dispensatory." It contains a select catalogue of drugs, chemicals 

 and family medicines, with the doses and properties of each article 

 most approved of in domestic medicine, adapted and proportioned to 

 the various ages of life. It contains also, directions for the treatment 

 of accidents and disorders destructive to life, when a physician is not 

 at hand, or until his assistance can be procured ; it shows also the 

 best immediate means to be adopted for obviating the effects of acci- 

 dents, from excessive doses of medicines, or where poisons have been 

 taken. — It contains in addition, a concise description of all the cele- 

 brated mineral springs of Great Britain and the United States, with 

 observations on the various kinds of baths and bathing, &c. &c. 

 We doubt not it will prove a useful volume. 



17. Notice of Dr. Hildreth's article on the coal deposits of the 

 Ohio, Sfc. in No. 1, Vol. xix. of this Journal ; from No. 58 of Lou- 

 don's Magazine of Natural History. — This is, perhaps, the most im- 

 portant geological memoir that has been recently published, if we 

 take into the account the amount and extent of the mineral treasures 

 which it develops, and their immense value to the rapidly increas- 

 ing population of the United States on the western side of the ran- 

 ges of the Alleghany Mountains. The memoir occupies the whole 





