Miscellanies. 209 



The Conchologist, with 17 plates. By John Warren, Boston, 

 Russell, Odiorne h Co. 4to. pp. 204. 



Republications. — General View of the Geology of Scripture, in 

 which the unerring truth of the Inspired Narrative of the early events 

 in the world is exhibited, and distinctly proved, by the corroborative 

 testimony of physical facts, on every part of the earth's surface. By 

 George Fail holme, Esq. Philadelphia : Key h Biddle, 12mo. pp. 

 281. (First republished in the Christian Library, Vol. 2.) 



Alphabet of Botany for the use of beginners. By James Rennie. 



Revised and corrected for the use of American Schools, by Ara- 

 bella Clark, principal of the Female Department, Mechanics' School, 

 New York, 18mo. pp. 130. 1833. 



A Treatise on Astronomy. By Sir John F. W. Herschel, Knt. 

 Guelp. F.R.S.L. and E. &c. Philadelphia, Carey, LeaandBlan- 

 chard, 1834, 12mo. pp. 296. 



9. Cabinet of the late Dr. William Meade. — This collection is 

 offered for sale by Mrs. Catherine Meade of Newburgh, in the State 

 of New York, at which place, Dr. Meade resided, during the later 

 years of his life. We have not seen this collection, but we have the 

 best reason for believing that it is both valuable and interesting. We 

 have already staled (Vol. 25 pa. 216 of this Jour.) that Dr. Meade 

 was, for twenty five years, an active collector of minerals ; that he 

 visited and explored many of the most interesting mineral deposits in 

 the northern states, and that he was in the habit of exchanging speci- 

 mens with eminent mineralogists abroad. 



We are informed that his collection contains twelve hundred, well 



selected and fine foreign specimens ; and about two thousand, be- 

 longing to four hundred varieties, of the best American minerals, of 

 a large size. There is also a very beautiful small collection of fossils 



and slate impressions. 



We are authorized to say, that the collection will be sold on the 

 most reasonable terms either entire or in divisions. It would doubt- 

 less be an important object for one of our junior colleges. 



A few hundred dollars, judicious 1 y expended in forming the nu- 

 cleus of a collection, will, with zeal and energy, soon produce an im- 

 portant effect in diffusing the knowledge of mineralogy ; and a col- 

 lection thus begun will grow beyond even the most sanguine hopes. 

 We would therefore invite the attention of mineralogists and of schools 

 and colleges to this collection and we presume that they will not find 

 its value overrated. 



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