78 New Scientific Books. [Jult, 



which produces a stop superior to that which is effected by 

 common cocks, and prevents the liquor from coming in contact 

 with the metals, except when the liquor is in the act of being 

 drawn and is running from the cask. Dated May 25, 1813. 



Article XV. 



Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press. 



Dr. Marshall Hall, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, is preparing a 

 practical work on the physiognomy and attitude of patients, and on 

 the symptoms and diognosis of diseases. The whole of the work is 

 intended to bear on diognosis as its principal and ultimate object. 



Dr. Robert Wall, of Glasgow, has a work in the press on the 

 History, Nature, and Treatment of Chincough, illustrated by a 

 variety of cases and dissections ; to which will be subjoined an 

 inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of 

 children in Glasgow, during the last thirty years ; and the number 

 who have died at various periods under ten years of age. 



Dr. Smith and Mr. Sowerby will complete their work on English 

 Botai y by a general Index to the thirty-six volumes, which will be 

 completed on the 1st of January, 1814. It is intended to arrange 

 the names of the English plants contained in that work, which will 

 amount to nearly 2600, in one part alphabetically, and in another 

 part according to the Linnaean system, with such improvements as 

 nave been received during its publication. When the English 

 Botany is completed, Mr. Sowerby hopes to be able to publish his 

 Mineral Conchology every month. The British and Exotic Mine- 

 ralogy will, in all probabilitj^, be finished in the course of the next 

 year. 



Dr. John Mason Cox, of Fish Ponds, near Bristol, is preparing 

 an enlarged edition of his Practical Treatise on Insanity. 



The second half of Volume VI. of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 

 by Dr. Brewster, is just ready. Its leading articles are Chronology, 

 Circle, Civil Architecture, Cloth Manufacture, Coining Machinery, 

 Cold, &c. 



Capt. Flinders's Account of his Voyage to Terra Australis, in 

 his Majesty's ship Investigator, is preparing for publication, by 

 authority of the Board of Admiralty. 



Mr. John Whitsed, of Peterborough, will shortly publish Prac- 

 tical Remarks on Diseases resembling Syphilis, with cases. 



* # * Early Communications for this Department of our Journal 

 will he thankfully received. 



