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character of the previous volumes. The sciences of agriculture and 
mining, subjects of great importance to the state of New York and to 
the whole country, are presented in a full and yet popular manner. 
No. 1 of vol. 111, contains, besides other original articles, an account of 
the copper mines of Lake Superior, with a map; a report on the re- 
sources of Orange county for manures; on salt as a fertilizer : and No. 
2 of the same volume, presents its readers with a memoir on the agri+ 
cultural geology of Onondaga county, with many analyses of soil and 
rocks; an article on Irish agriculture; another on European agricul- 
ture ; an account of the Zeuglodon with figures of several bones. Be- 
sides these and other memoirs, there are copious excerpts of agricultural 
and scientific interest. 
4. Manipulations in the scientific arts: 1. Photogenic Manipula- 
tion, in two parts; by G. T. Fisuer, Jr. 2. Electrotype Manipulation, 
in two parts; by C. V. Watxzr. Small 18mo. pp. 110 and 150. Re- 
printed from the Londen edition. Philadelphia :. Carey & Hart. 
These useful little treatises are timely, and cannot fail to promote an 
intelligent application of science to the arts, in two of the most seni 
able and useful discoveries of modern times. 
5. Turner’s Chemistry, 7th edition, with notes and siddisions't by 
James B. Rogers, M. D., and Rozert E. Rocers, M.D. Phil. 1846. 
Thos. Cowperthwaite & Co. 8vo. pp. 848.—A new edition of Dr. 
Turner’s Elements was much needed in this country: it has had a 
most deserved popularity here as well as in England, as one of the best 
» treatises -on. elementary chemistry which has ever appeared. The 
present edition has been brought down to the — time by a number 
of judicious notes added by the Messrs. Rog 
6. Monthly Miscellany and Journal of Healsh ; ; edited by W. M. 
Cornet, M. D., $1 per annum.—This journal was commenced the Ist 
of January last. It contains much good reading, and vajuable io 
gence, and information on health, of a popular character. 
7. A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds; by RicuarD 
Owen, F.R.S.,F.G.8., etc. Illustrated by 237 wood cuts. London: 
J. Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 1846. 8vo. pp. 560.—This. volume 
is one of a uniform series of works, publishing in London by Mr. Van 
Voorst, comprising a complete zoology of the British Islands. Mr. 
Owen’s late labors, undertaken at the request of the British Association 
‘for the advancement of Science, on the remains of British fossil ver- 
tebrate animals, have peculiarly fitted him for the present task. The 
chapter on the Proboscidian animals we have read with peculiar interest. 
The beautiful. figure of the Mastodon giganteus, at p. 182 of this vol- 
ume, is a fac simile of that given by Mr. Owen, and is a fair sample of 
thes: high- style of art in which all the wood cuts of this volume are 
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