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tbe University of Nashville. 256 pp., 8vo. Illustrated Ly maps and 

 diagrams. New York: 1857. A. S. Barnes & Co. — The author attempts 

 to trace analogies between organic and world development. The work 

 is the result of much thought, and contains valuable suggestions. There 

 are undoubtedly real analogies of the highest meaning betAveen the two 

 systems of development; but they are to be found in the profound laws 

 of progress, which are, in fact, simple philosophical principleSj and not in 

 details of structure. There are ideas running alike through the suc- 

 cessive phases of both ; but to attempt to find in the earth any analogy 

 to the special organism of an animal is to mistake the whole bearing of 

 the subject ; and this is where the w^ork of Professor Owen diverges from 

 the true philosophy of nature* 



9. Coast Survey Report for the year 1855. 420 pp., 4to. Washing- 

 ton : 1855. — This Report by Prof. A. D. Bache is a massy volume con- 

 taining the results of a years' progress in the great work he has in charge. 

 One-half the volume consists of maps of the surveys made on different 

 parts of our eastern and western coasts, besides diagrams illustrating 

 special researches by Prof Bache and officers in the survey. 



10. Fossils of South Carolina ; by M. Tl'omey and F. S, Holmes.- 

 Nos, 9 and 10 of this fine work contain a continuation of the descrip- 

 tions of South Carolina Pleiocene fossils, with five lithographic plates. 



11. The JJ, S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hem- 

 isphere^ during the years 1849 — 1852. Volume VI, Magnetical and Me- 

 teorological observations, under the direction of Lieut. J. M. Gilliss, 

 LL.D,, Superintendent. 430 pp., 4to. Washington: 1856. — The tables 

 of which this volume consists, are a full exhibition of all the magnetic 

 and meteorological observations made in Gilliss's Astronomical Expedition, 

 The observations have been reduced and the means calculated, evidently 

 With great labor. The special points which are noted are, absolute dedi' 

 nations at Santiago, Chili, the diurnal changes of declination, variations 

 of horizontal force at different places in Chili, observations to determine 

 the absolute horizontal force and calculations for different places, mag- 

 netic term-day observations ; mean atmospheric pressure at the several 

 observation hours of each month, quarterly and annual means; mean 

 temperature in the same manner, for the hours, the months, and year, 

 maxima and minima and daily range ; and similar detail as to the mean 

 temperature of evaporation, the winds, clouds and rain. This is the 

 third volume of the Report thus far issued. The work is a great one, and 

 we look for its completion with deep Interest. 



12. Familiar Astronomy, or an Introduction to the Study of the 

 Heavens. Illustrated by celestial maps, and upwards of 200 finely exe- 

 cuted engravings; to which is added a Treatise on the Globes, and a 

 Comprehensive Astronomical Dictionary, for the use of schools and pri- 

 vate students; by Hanxah M. Bouvier. 499 pp., 8vo. Philadelphia: 

 1857. Childs & Peterson. — This new volume on astronomy is an excel- 

 lent work, exceedingly well adapted for class instruction in schools or 

 academies, and at the same time well calculated by its thoroughness and 

 attractive character to disseminate astronomical knowledge beyond the 

 walls of the academy. It is superior in its typography, remarkably 

 beautiful in its numerous wood cuts, precise and pure in its English, full 

 in its illustrations, and up to the times in its science. A considerable 



