Miscellanies. 403 
5. Annual Report of the Regents of me University. No. 52. aan 
1, 1838. pp. 220. 
6. First Report on the Agriculture of Misigessies by Henry 
Colman, commissioner for the Agricultural Survey of the State. 
pp. 139. 
7. First Annual Report of the Board of Education, &c. Boston. 
1838. pp. 75. 
8. Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education on the sub- 
ject of School Houses, supplementary to the above. pp. 64. 
9. The statistical tables of Massachusetts. Except the last, which 
was mentioned at p. 213 of this volume, these reports, important as 
they are, must, for the present, stand with only a titular enrollment. 
We have fully the will, but at present, have not the power todo more. 
We trust that some of them, and especially those on geology; will be 
mentioned hereafter. 
Journal of an Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Masiubaiiel in 
1835-6, and 7; by Rev. Samuel Parker, A.M. With a map and an 
engraving. Ithaca, N. ¥Y. 1838. pp. 378, large 12mo. 
Mr. Parker’s tour was made under the American Board of Commis- 
sioners for Foreign Missions, with particular reference to the Indians. 
This main object is kept steadily in view, and there is much valua- 
ble information in the work in relation to the aborigines, whose in- 
teresting condition and ultimate prospects are deservedly exciting the 
sympathies, exertions, and contributions of the christian people of the 
United States. 
The work contains also numerous facts of deep scientific interest, 
especially in relation to the ample and decisive proofs of igneous 
action and of earthquakes in the Rocky mountains, and the country 
between them and the Pacific. It would give us pleasure to make an 
abstract in relation to trap, basalt and undoubted modern volcanic pro- 
ducts, but as we have neither room nor time, we can only recommend 
the perusal of the work both to the lovers of nature and of man.* 
British Annual and Epitome of the progress of Science, for 1838, 
edited by Robt. D. Thomson, M. D. Lond. 1838. 18mo. cloth, let- 
tered. pp. 387. This valuable work was preceded last year by a sim- 
ilar volume, containing Recent progress of Optical Science, by Prof. 
Powell; Experiments and Observations on visible Vibration and No- 
dal division, by C. Tomlinson, Esq. ; Recent Progress of Astronomy, 
by W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., &c.; the History of Magnetical Dis- 
* We cannot, however, entirely recommend the cosmogony of the 16th chapter, 
and a few seca which we could wish had been omitted, especially as the style is 
in general, simple, lucid, and ataphic. 
