1823.] Ncio Scientific Books. 3&7 



6. All the dissertations, the successful one excepted, will, if desired, 

 be returned with the sealed packets unopened. 



One dissertation only on the subject " Dropsy," proposed by the 

 Society for the Fothergillian medal, to have been adjudged in March, 

 ]823, having been presented, the Society thinking it probable that from 

 the recent establishment of the prize, it had not been sufficiently, made 

 known to the medical faculty, have deferred the adjudication of the 

 prize for the best dissertation on the subject of " Dropsy," to another 

 year. 



The subject of the Essay for the gold prize of the ensuing year is 

 " Diseases of the Spine." 



Article XVII. 

 NEW SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 



PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. 



Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney is about to publish a Series of Lectures on 

 the Elements of Chemical Science, lately delivered at the Surrey 

 Institution. 



Mr. Oliver has in the press, Popular Observations on Muscular 

 Contraction, with a Mode of Treatment of Diseases of Limbs associated 

 therewith. 



In the press, a Translation of De Humboldt's Geognostical Essay 

 on the Superposition of Rocks. 



Dr. Antommarchi, formerly Professor of Anatomy in the University 

 of Pisa, and Surgeon to the late Ex-Emperor at St. Helena, is publish- 

 ing an Anatomical Work, to be comprised in 80 Plates, representing 

 the whole Structure of the Human Body, except the Integuments, in 

 Figures of the natural Size. An explanatory and descriptive Sketch 

 will be added to every Plate in which the multiplicity of figures might 

 otherwise create confusion. The Work is edited by M. le Comte de 

 Lasteyrie. 



Mrs. Holderness is employed on a Work on New Russia, being some 

 Account of the Colonization of that Country, and of the Manners and 

 Customs of the Colonists. 



JU5T PUBLISHED. 



A Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale Fishery, including 

 Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, 

 made in the Summer of 1822, in the Ship Baffin, of Liverpool. By W. 

 Scoresby, Jun. FRSE. Commander. With 8 Plates. 8vo. 16$. 



Dendrologia Britannica, or Trees and Shrubs that will live in the 

 open Air of Britain throughout the Year. By P. W. Watson. Royal 

 8vo. Parts I. to IV. 4s. 6d. each. Each Number contains 8 coloured 

 Engravings. 



Hortus Cantabrigiensis, or an Accented Catalogue of Plants, Indi- 

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 the late J. Donn, FLS. and FHS. Tenth Edition, with numerous 

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