234 New Scientific Books. [Sept. 



XIV. Meteorite. By G. B. Sowerby, Esq. 



In your last number (for August) you mention a meteorite 

 which fell at Jonsac, or Tonsac, on June 13, 1819. From an 

 examination of a small portion of this stone now in my posses- 

 sion, for which I am indebted to the liberahty of M, Brochantde 

 Vilhers, I am enabled to inform you that it differs much in out- 

 ward appearance from all the meteorites I have ever observed, 

 except those which fell at Stannern, in Moravia, a few years ago. 

 Like them its internal parts are much lighter in colour, and its 

 crust is perfectly vitrified and shining. 



XV. Temperature of Taroslawl, in Russia. 



The last winter was remarkable for its severity throughout the 

 north of Europe. An Enghsh gentleman who wintered in the 

 above town states, that Reaumur's thermometer generally stood 

 at from 12° to 20° below the freezing point (equal from 27° to 

 45° of Fahrenheit), that it often sunk even much lower, and once 

 reached the extraordinary point of 32°, equal to 72° Fahrenheit, 

 below the freezing point. 



Taroslawl, or Ynroslaul, as it is called in the maps, is one of 

 the largest towns in Russia. It is situated on the Volga, about 

 130 miles N.N.E. from Moscow, in latitude about 57^° North, or 

 nearly on the same parallel as Inverness. 



Article XIII. 

 NEW SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. 



Dr. Renwick is about to publish the Continuation of the Narrative of Miss 

 Margaret M'Avoy's Case, with general Observations upon the Case itself, &c. 

 and with additional Proofs of her Blindness, &c. 



Shortly will be published, lithographed in 4to. a Series of Designs for private 

 Dwellings, comprising perspective Elevation, adapted to geometrical Measure- 

 ment, and Plans of the several Stories, with explanatory References. By 

 J. Hedgeland. 



Mr. Accum has in the Press, a Treatise on Domestic Chemistry, containing 

 Instructions for making good and wholesome Bread, Beer, Wine, Vinegar, 

 Pickles, &c. 



Prof. Leslie has in the Press, Geometrical Analysis, and the Geometry of 

 Curve Lines : also a Treatise on Heat, theoretical and practical. 



Travels in England, Wales, and Scotland, in 18l6, by Dr. Spiker, Librarian 

 to the King of Prussia, are translating for the Press. 



Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, by the late Dr. Thomas 

 Brown, are printing in three octavo Volumes. 



JUST PUBLISnED. i 



A Compendium of the Ornithology of Great Britain, with a Reference to the 

 Anatomy and Physiology of Birds. By John Atkinson, F.L.S.&c. 8vo. 8*. 



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