318 New Scientific Books. {"Oct. 



is in the ground: and fourthly, in forming the largest part of 

 the shank one-third down from the crown in a line across from 

 toe to toe of the arms. Dated July 23, 1813. 



Frederick Koenig, of Castle-street, Finsbury-square, 

 printer; for certain additional improvements on his method 

 of printing by means of machinery. Dated July 23, 1813. 



John Lewis, Llanelly, Carmarthen ; for certain improve- 

 ments in the art of smelting copper ore. Dated July 23, 1813. 



Charles James JVIason, Lane Delph, near Newcastle- 

 under-Lyne, potter; for an improvement in the manufacture 

 •f English porcelain. Dated July 23, 1813. 



Article XVI. 



Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press. 



Mr. Singer has in the Press Elements of Electricity and Electro- 

 chemistry, including Voltaic Electricity, or Galvanism. The work 

 'will contain a variety of original experiments, and an account of 

 a New System of Electrical Insulation recently invented by the 

 Author. 



Sir Everard Home is about to publish his Course of Lectures on 

 Comparative Anatomy, delivered at the College of Physicians. 



Mr. Dodsworth is preparing for the Press a Description of Salis- 

 bury Cathedral, including an account of its Monuments, and Bio- 

 graphical Memoirs of the Bishops, in a Quarto Volume, with about 

 thirty Engravings. 



Mr. Clarke proposes to publish an Investigation of the Mecha- 

 nical Science and Historical Descent of Architecture in England 

 during the middle ages, in a Quarto Volume, with about thirty 

 Engravings. 



The Fourth Volume of the Transactions of the Medical and 

 Chirurgical Society of London will be published in October. 



Mr. Hopkirk, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Member of 

 the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, is speedily to 

 publish Flora Glottiana — a Catalogue of the Indigenous Plants on 

 the banks of the river Clyde, and in the neighbourhood of the City 

 of Glasgow. 



A New Edition of Sir William Dugdale's History of Embanking 

 and Draining with a continuation to the present time, is preparing 

 for publication. 



*** Early Communications for this Department of our Journal 

 tvifi be thankfully received. 



