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tic animals of all kinds, the cultivation of the garden and other collateral 
302 Miscellaneous Intelligence. | he # 
ures on Roman Husbandry—delivered before the Universi of 
Oxford, escent such an account of the System of Agriculinre, 
the Treatment of Domestic Animals, the Horticulture, ete. pursued i 
ancient times, as may be collected from the Seriptores Rei Rustice, the 
Georgices of Virgil, and other classical ng ang with notices of the 
plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; by Professor Cuarues Dav- 
University of Oxford. 328 pp., 8vo. Oxford and London, 1857.—T 
scientific and classical world are under equal obligations to the learned 
author for his valuable and attractive work on the condition of agricul- 
ture and horticulture, and the breeding of domestic animals, in the most 
flourishing period of the Roman power, The author alludes in his pre- 
face to his indebtedness to the earlier treatise of the Rev. Mr. Dickson on 
the * Llusbandry of the Ancients,” published in 1788, but states that he 
has embraced a wider range cf topics, adding to the subject of tilla 
that of the culture of the vineyard and orchard, the treatment of domes- 
topics. Dr. Daubeny has brought to the task a familiar acquaintance 
with classical learning as well as with the sciences pertaining to the sub- 
ject. As a chemist and botanist and also a man of general scie ience he 
lias long been known. It is impossible, within the limits of a brief no- 
tice, to present an analysis of a work which is ee an analysis of the 
i e@ “he ft on the 
tiquity ; we travel —- pleasantly with the author through his lea 
and agreeable volum j 
The work is illustrated by a plan of Pliny’s Laurentian villa an 
ounds, another of a Villa Urbana Rustica and Fructu aria wei “a 
olumella, of a Garden and Portico at Pompeii, pictures © eultu 
operations from Egy zyptian monuments, ancient Greek agric vakuth tel 
ments, plan of a n Egyptian garden, and drawings of plants wae 
by ancient ms 
edical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, &c.; f nites 
Dexeuison, M.D., LL.D., revised and very largely corrected: pn a 
phia: Blanchard & Lea. 1857. 8vo, pp. 992,—This ac -complished = 
learned author here presents us with a thoroughly revised 
n of medical terms. It is prepared with great care 4! 
Widest and most catholic spirit. The literary and the mechan 
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ered universally as the buat wo os of the kind in any ylang a Nat 
7. os.—I]HTumboldt, in a letter to the German Assoc 
uralists and ] . recently published, announces sore a we ‘volun 
of ary oe a (the first Abtheilung of the fourth and last B ‘he ai ll 
pce ubl secu tt will present, as a counterpart to the rey ome 
ranologie, an introduction to the special presentation 
