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wood's pharmacy, before Prof. Proctor's improved edition of this fine 

 technical treatise was laid on our table by Messrs. Lea & Blanchard. 

 This work is one which will at once find its place in every laboratory 

 and pharmaceutical shop, and is well calculated Jo recommend new and 

 improved methods of manipulation to both chemists and pharmaceutists. 

 In the absence of highly appointed laboratories and of pharmaceutical 

 instruction which is so general in this country, such works as the pres- 

 ent are particularly valuable. The beautiful and abundant wood cuts 

 which adorn almost every page of the book, render the descriptions of 

 apparatus perfectly plain, and its reconstruction easy even by the tyro. 

 Prof. Proctor has long been known to pharmaceutical readers in this 

 country as the author of numerous and important researches in the 

 Materia Medica, and his additions to the present edition of Mohr and 

 Redwood are frequent and valuable. 



3. Chemical Analysis, Qualitative and Quantitative ; by Henry M. 

 Noad, with numerous additions by Campbell Morfit, with illustrations. 

 Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blackiston. 1840. 12mo, pp. 567.— This 

 well "got up" book is undoubtedly an important addition to there- 

 sources of the chemical student, and we believe we hazard little in 

 saying that England has produced nothing better. In saying this we 

 do not feel bound to except the late English translation of Eose, by Dr. 

 Normandy, published without the knowledge of its distinguished author, 

 from the French edition of 1843; and this too while it is well known 

 *o all chemists that Rose is and has been for two years engaged con- 

 stantly in the preparation of a new and greatly improved edition of his 

 treatise on analysis. Those who are familiar with Rose and Berzelius, 

 will freely acknowledge that all other treatises on analytical chemistry 

 are very largely indebted to these cardinal authors for their most valua- ' 

 We portions. 



From this remark we do not except the treatise above named, and it 

 is certainly in itself no poor recommendation of such a work, that its 

 authorities are the best in the literature of chemistry. The difficulty in 

 such cases however, is not that the authorities are good, but that it is not 

 always easy to distinguish the author from the compiler. In general 

 we have to object to this and similar treatises, that they are not always 

 full enough on some important points while they are usually redundant 

 in others. This fault is obvious to experts and with them will do no 

 harm, but to the learner is often troublesome. We frankly confess 

 however, that we have been very favorably disappointed by this book of 

 Mr. Noad's, having contracted a very different opinion of his Lectures 

 °f Chemistry, published some years ago. 



Mr. Morfit, the American editor, claims our thanks, not only for this 

 edition of Noad, judiciously annotative, but also for his late work on 

 11 Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manipulations" by the same publishers 

 a *)d in the same size and style as the edition of Noad. 



'Hie "Manipulations" is adorned with over four hundred beautiful 

 wood-cuts illustrative of its descriptive portions, and is a really valuable 

 addition to our chemical literature, and should be in the library of all 

 chemical students and manipulators. 



4. The Fossil Footmarks of the United States and the Animals that 



wade them; by Edward Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D., President of Am- 



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