172 New Scientific Books. (Fes. 
ARTICLE XV. 
New Patents. 
Joun Burnerr, of Bristol, iron-founder; for his convolving 
iron axletree for the reduction of friction and animal labour, by the 
application of which wheels of carriages of every description are 
prevented from coming off whilst travelling, and carriages are 
drawn with less animal labour. June 20, 1816. 
Joun Hawkins Bartow, of Leicester-place, Leicester-square, 
goldsmith and jeweller; for certain improvements on tea-urns, tea- 
pots, tea-boards, or tea-trays. June 27, 1816. 
Joun Bartow, of Sheffield, founder ; for a new cooking appa- 
ratus. July 2, 1816. 
Joun Towers, of Little Warner-street, Cold Bath-fields, 
chemist ; for a tincture for the cure and relief of coughs, asthmas, 
and diseases, which he intends to denominate Towers’s New 
London Cough Tincture. July 11, 1816, 
Henry Warsourton, of Lower Cadogan-place, Chelsea, Esq. ; 
for a method of distilling certain animal, vegetable, and mineral 
substances, and of manufacturing certain of the products thereof. 
July 27, 1816. 
ArTIcLE XVI. 
Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press. 
Mr. Andrew Horn, author of the *‘ Seat of Vision determined by the 
Discovery of a new Function in the Organ,” proposes to publish by 
subscription a work upon which he has been long engaged—lIllustra- 
tions of the Mosaic Cosmogony and Naochian Deluge. It is divided 
into three parts, viz. An Inquiry into the Origin of the Notion preva- 
lent among Mankind concerning superior Beings: on Philosophical 
Cosmology: and on the Origin of the World, Formation and Revolu- 
tions of the Earth according to the Principles of Moses; this part 
includes 15 chapters. The whole will compose one volume, 4to. of 
about 500 pages, accompanied with four plates, illustrative of the 
various subjects and theories which it embraces. 
An Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors on the Physical 
and Moral Faculties of Man, and on the Happiness of Society. 
The Third Volume of the Zoological Miscellany is preparing for the 
Press, and will be published in the course of two or three months. 
Mr. James White, author of the very popular work on Farriery, is 
preparing for publication a compendious Dictionary of the Veterinary 
Art. 
Dr. Burrows is preparing Commentaries on Mental Derangement. 
The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, of Glasgow, is printing a Volume of Dis- 
courses, in which he combats at some length the argument, derived 
from astronomy, against the truth of the Christian Revelation ; and, in 
the prosecution of his reasoning, he attempts to elucidate the harmony 
that subsists between the doctrines of Scripture and the discoveries of 
modern science, 
