■322 QUARTERLY JOURNAL. 



The letter-press and engravings are in superior style. The work 

 consists of " five magnificient large imperial octavo volumes — 

 containing sixty-eight large steel engravings — forty-six steel vig- 

 nettes — three hundred wood cuts — thirteen maps and charts, and 

 twenty-five hundred pages letter-press. Price $25,00 to subscri- 

 bersj done up in beautiful extra cloth binding* 



The Parmer's Mine, or Source of Wealth, being a compilation, with the addition ol 

 new and important information on the subject of manure, together with the most ap- 

 proved methods ior the manufacture of vegetable manure, by which the farmer can ob- 

 tain, in the shortest possible time, as much manure of the richest qualify as he pleaset 

 ^to whicli is added Productive Farming, by Joseph A. Smith. By Henry Hear- 

 mance. Revised and corrected by A. B. Allen, Editor of the American Agriculturist. 

 New- York, published by Henry Heermance, and for sale by Saxton & Miles, office o: 

 the American Agriculturist, 205 Broadway. 1845. 



This book, with this tremendous long title, containsa great deal 

 of practical information for the farmer on the subject of manures 

 and is a compilation of the views of various authors on that sub- 

 ject. 



The Chemistry of Vegetable and Animal Physiology, by Dr. G. T. Mulder, Professo 

 of Chemistry in the University of Utrecht. Translated from the Dutch, by P. F. H 

 Fromberg, First Assistant in the Laboratory of the Scotch Agricultural Chemistry Ab 

 sociation, of Scotland. With an introduction by Professor J. F. W. Johnston, F. R. S 

 S., L. & E. 



First authorized American edition, with notes and corrections by B. Silliman, Jr. Vol. 1 

 Part I. No. 1. New- York, Wiley & Putnam. 1845, Price, 20 cents. 



We have read the first number of this work with attention, ant 

 have come to the conclusion that, thus far, it is the most philoso 

 phical treatise iipon vegetable and animal physiology which ha 

 yet appeared. It is not a repetition of the views of Liebig o 

 Boussaingault ,or of any preceding writer. It is a work which stand 

 by itself, and is made up of the matter and thctught of Miilde 

 with all the aid which cotemporary laborers can give in this pro 

 lific field of research. The names upon the title page are th' 



