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Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press; ~~ ~~~ 
A New Edition of Dr. Wells’s Essay on Dew -is' in the Press,-and 
will appear in October. bes - mee 
Mr. Sowerby has announced his intention to sell separately Coloured 
Prints of such British Plants as are introduced into the last Edition.of 
the Materia Medica. A great part of the plants recommended in the 
Materia Medica of the last edition.of the Pharmacopeeia Londinensis 
are indigenous to Great Britain, and-are described in Sir J. Ei. Smith’s 
Flora Britannica, and figured in English Botany. Many of these by 
experience are understood to supersede the use of some of the Foreign 
ones, the identity of which must be certainly more dubious. The 
Royal College of Physicians have very commendably decided upon the 
propriety of medical practitioners having a sufficient knowledge of 
Botany to distinguish those plants which are more particularly useful in 
medicine: wherefore it has -beeh thought desirable by some to procure 
such figures of medical plants as are published in English Botany ; and 
Mr. Sowerby considers it his public duty to say, that he will furnish to 
those professional persons who desire it, plates only of the 54 medical 
plants figured in English Botany. ; 
Mr. Anderson, of West Smithfield, has announced a Catalogue of an 
extensive Collection of Books in Anatomy, Surgery, Mediciné, Mid- 
wifery, Chemistry, &c, New and Second Hand, including a valuable 
assortment of Medical Works recently imported from the Continent. 
To which is added a List of the Lectures delivered in London, with 
their terms, hours of attendance, &c. - 
Mr. Hanson, of Manchester, will shortly publish a Folio Chart, en- 
titled, The Meteorologist’s Assistant, accompanied with a Card, ex- 
planatory of the Mode of Notation. The chart will serve for any year 
and place required: but the principal object of it is to bring into one 
view a year’s observations of the weather, by means of.curves and cha- 
racters. Of course it will facilitate 2 comparison of cotemporary 
hotations of remote places, é 
Mr- Crowe, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, will publish in a few days 
a Chemical Table, exhibiting an elementary view of Chemistry, int 
tended for the use of Students and young Practitioners in Physic, also 
to revive the Memory of more experienced Persons, being very con- 
venient for hanging in Public and Private Libraries. 
Mr. Carpue’s Work on the Nasal Operation, with Plates, will appear 
in a few days. 
During the ensuing month will be published the Ninth Volume of 
General Zoology, being a continuation of the Birds, by I. Stephens, 
E%q. who will finish the history of that class. The Mollusca willbe 
written by Dr. Blainville, of Paris, who has devoted a considerable 
portion of his time to the study ofthat interesting type of animals: and 
the Crustacea by Dr. Leach, who is now gone to Paris for the purpose 
of obtaining a more perfect knowledge of the species Thus the com- 
pletion of this interesting work, commenced, and carried as far as the 
eighth volume, by the late Dr. Shaw, may be speedily expected. a 
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