456 Bibliography. 



tory, including the preparation of the most frequently used reagents. 

 The construction and use of apparatus is also explained, and the man- 

 ipulations in glass-blowing rendered simple by good cuts. 



The action of the most frequently occurring bases and acids with re- 

 agents, is also treated of much after the manner of Fresenius, as well 

 also as the outline of qualitative and quantitative analysis. An Appen- 

 dix contains various useful tables of weights, measures, &c, as also of 

 strength of acids, alkalies, the thermometer, degrees of solubility, &c, 

 to which is added a glossary of terms. 



American students are much indebted to Messrs. Lea & Blanchard 

 for the promptness with which nearly every useful work of the En- 

 glish press, on chemistry and other kindred sciences, is reproduced by 

 them. 



7. GmelirCs Chemistry. — (Hand-Book of Chemistry, by Leopold 

 Gmelin, Professor of Chemistry in the Univ. of Heidelberg, &c., &c. 

 Vol. I. Cohesion — Adhesion — Affinity — Light — Heat and Electricity. 

 Translated by Henry Watts, B.A., F.C.S. London : printed for the 

 Cavendish Society, 1848.) — This truly important addition to the 

 chemical literature of the English language, is presented to chemists 

 as one of the offerings of the Cavendish Society, lately formed in 

 London, on a plan similar to that of the Ray Society, and which 

 promises to do for chemical science what the latter has already begun to 

 do so well for natural history. Gmelin's Hand-Book is a work of great 

 erudition, being little else than a complete exposition of all the re- 

 searches which have thus far unfolded any important truths in chemical 

 science. The first volume now before us (of 519 pages, and 4 cop- 

 per plates), is exclusively devoted to the physics of chemistry, and 

 will be a rich mine of accurate facts and full references, for many 



readers, to whom the original German has been a sealed or an inacces- 

 sible book. We have been astonished in a rapid review of this volume 

 at the amount and variety of laborious research and precise state- 

 ment exhibited in every page which we have read. It is a guide for 



the teacher and still more for the investigator, rather than a text-book 

 for the student — and as such, will not fail to find its place on the table 

 of all who strive to keep up with the rapid progress of this active day, 

 in which chemistry is advancing with a rapidity known in few other 

 sciences at any period, and unsurpassed by none at present. Did our 

 space permit, we should be glad to transfer to our pages a full con- 

 spectus of this valuable volume. Two of the remaining volumes of 

 this system are promised by the Council of the Cavendish Society 

 during this year, if a sufficient addition is made to the number of 

 members. 



8. Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. ii; pp. 

 637, 8vo. New York. 



I. Hon. Albert Gallatin : The Indians of North West America. 



II. E. G. Squier : Observations on the Aboriginal Monuments of 

 the Mississippi Valley. 



III. Prof. C. C. Rafn of Copenhagen : View of the Ancient Geog- 

 raphy of the Arctic Regions of America, from Accounts contained in 

 Old Icelandic MSS. 





