AQ2 Miscellanies.. 
In the journal are contained, not only original British papers, but 
reprints or abstracts of the principal things published on these sub- 
jects in other European countries and in the United States. Figures 
are liberally supplied in handsome lithographed plates, and we can- 
not doubt, that a periodical work on these very important subjects, 
conducted with so much spirit and ability, will be fully sustained and 
prove eminently beneficial. We heartily wish it success, and hope it 
will be extensively patronized in this country. The price of each 
No. is 2s. 6d. sterling. Mr. Sturgeon is assisted by gentlemen emi- 
nent in the departments of philosophy to which the journal is devoted. 
The Electrical Society have commenced their publications in a 
quarto* form ; the first No. contains the rules and regulations of the 
society, and a manly, sensible, introductory discourse, by Mr. Stur- 
geon, setting forth the objectsin view. The second No. contains two 
papers on important.subjects. 
1. The action of the Voltaic battery shown to be two-fold, and the 
distinction between the terms quantity and intensity determined by the 
theory of vibration; with a reply to the various objections made to 
the theory, by Mr. Thomas Pollock, read Oct. 2ist, and Nov. 4th, 1837. 
2. Description of some experiments made with the Voltaic battery, 
by Andrew Crosse, Esq., of Broomfield, near Taunton, for the pur- 
pose of producing crystals, in the process of which, certain insects 
constantly appeared. Communicated in a letter, dated Dec. 27th, 
1837, addressed to the secretary of the London Electrical Society. 
21. Columbite and tin-ore at Beverly, Mass.—Prof. Suzrarp finds 
small 12-sided prisms of columbite and hemitropic crystals of tin-ore, 
in the green feldspar-rock, discovered by the late Dr. CorNELivs. 
22. GEOLOGICAL AND OTHER REPORTS. 
We have before us, 
1. Dr..Charles T., Jackson’s\Second Report on the Geology of 
Maine. Augusta, Maine. 1838. pp. 168. 
2. His Second Annual Report on the Geology of the public lands 
belonging to the States of Massachusetts and Maine. 
3. Professor Hitcheock’s Report on the Re-examination of the eco- 
nomical Geology of pane mmaapate ah in relation to its Se feti agriculture, 
fuel, ores, &c. &c. 
4. Second Report on the Sones of + New York, being State docu- 
ment No. 200. pp. 384. 
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inconvenient form for an active society, whose publications ought to be 
easily cs Male incers, even about the person, and as cheap as is consistent 
with efficiency and respectability. —, a 
