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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Chemistry in its application to Agriculture and 

 Physiology. By Justus Liebig, M. D., Ph.D., F. R. S., 

 M. R. I. A., Prof, of Chemistry in the University of Ges- 

 sein, &c., &c. Edited from the manuscript of the author, 

 by Lyon Playfair; with very numerous additions, and a new 

 chapter on Soils. Third American, from the second Eng- 

 lish edition; with Notes and an Appendix, by John W. 

 Webster, M. D., Erving Prof, of Chemistry in Harvard 

 University. 



It is but little more than a year since we reviewed the first edi- 

 tion of this celebrated work, and but a short time since we notic- 

 ed the second. The third is now before us, with very nume- 

 rous additions and corrections from the London publication, 

 furnished by the editor, Dr. Playfair. The whole arrangement 

 of the volume has been altered, and the more important sub- 

 jects treated upon separately, and in a manner more lucid than 

 in either of the preceding editions. 



The rapid sale of this volume is an evidence of the in- 

 creasing interest which is felt in the important subject of Ag- 

 ricultural Chemistry. We hail it as the commencement of a 

 new era in practical agriculture, and destined to be the means 

 of greatly increasing the fertility and the products of our farms. 



Art. n. Address delivered at Washington, Miss.., before 

 the Agricultural, Horticultural, and Botanical Society of 

 Jefferson College. By B. L. C. Wailes, President of 

 the Society, on the 29ih of April, 1842. Pamphlet, 8vo. 

 20 pages. Natchez: 1842. 



Ax interesting address, from which we extract the follow- 

 ing, in relation to the origin of the Society: — 



This Society wns formed in April, 1839, and we now present you, at 

 our eighth exhibition, some evidence that it has exercised a beneficial 

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