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characteristics and temperament, the diseases and the medicine of the 

 aborigines of Brazil, (Das Naturell, die Krankheiten, das Arztthum 

 und die Heilmittel der Urbewohner Brasiliens,) which, although pub- 

 lished in a separate form, originally appeared as an article in Buchner's 

 Repertorium fur die Pharmacie ; and which appears to contain much 

 curious matter, both for medical men, and for those who are interested 

 in the natural history, the origin, and the fortunes of the American 



races. 



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aritlims to Numbers from 1 to 120,000, Numbers to Logarithms from 

 •0 to 1 -00000, Logarithmic Sines and Tangents to every second of the 

 circle, with arguments in space and time, and new Astronomical and 

 Geodesical Tables. By Robert Shortrede, F. R. A. S., &c, Captain 

 H. E. I. C. S., and First Assistant of the great Trigonometrical Survey 

 of India. Edinburgh, pp. 674, royal 8vo. £4 4s. in cloth. 



The want of such a collection of tables as the above must have been 

 often felt by those who have had much to do with logarithmic calcula- 

 tions requiring peculiar accuracy. The tables of Taylor and Bagay, 

 which give logarithmic sines and tangents to every second of arc, are 

 in quarto volumes of inconvenient size, and on this account can claim 

 hardly any advantage in facilitating trigonometrical calculations over the 

 less extensive and more portable tables of Callet. Though Capt. Short- 

 rede has compressed into an octavo volume of moderate size more than 

 has usually been embraced in bulky quartos, yet the type and arrangement 

 of his work are such that the numbers present themselves to the eye 

 with a good degree of distinctness. And if due care has been taken 

 to render the work accurate,' we cannot doubt that it will be received 

 by astronomers and others who have occasion to use logarithmic tables 

 of the larger kind, as better suited to their wants than any collection 

 of such tables previously published. The table of numbers answering 

 to given logarithms, which is introduced into Capt. Shortrede's collec- 

 tion, has been commonly omitted in such works : and though the table 

 as prepared by Dodson and published by itself in a folio volume, has 

 been hitherto of little service to mathematicians, yet presented, as it 

 now is, in a convenient form by Capt. Shortrede, it cannot fail to be 

 found useful. Among the astronomical and geodesical tables accom- 

 panying the three principal tables mentioned in the title of Capt Short- 

 rede's work, there is a very complete table of Refractions, that deserves 

 especial notice. It was deduced by Mr. Galbraith from the well known 

 investigations of Mr. Ivory concerning Astronomical Refraction. 



I o show the confidence which those concerned in the publication of 

 Capt Shortrede's tables, have in their correctness, it may be well to give 



