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They can ~_ be obtained by skillful prospecting at great risk and ex- 
pense. All the localities have been exhausted for several years, and 
Greenfield, Mass. July, 1853. 
V. BiBLioGRaPHy. 
1. Miscellaneous Chemical Researches: Inaugural dissertation for 
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, addressed to the Philosophical 
Faculty of the University of Gottingen, by Cuartes A. Joy, of Bos- 
ton. Gottingen, 1853. 50 pp. 8vo.—The researches ere published 
were made part in Gdttingen, under Prof. Wéhle , and part in Berlin, 
under Prof. H. Rose. They relate to the composition of sa corals, 
meteoric iron, volcanic rocks, minerals, and s eka ic compounds. 
We defer to another number a further notice of t i results. 
2. Report on ane points in the Geology of Massachusets by 
Pres. ace Hircncocx. Exec. Dep’t Mass.; Hous 39. 
—This valuable esi \reats of CL ) the Coal Field of Bristol county 
and of Rhode Island; (2.) the Determination of the geological age 
and position of the beds of Brown Hematite Iron Ore in Berkshire 
county, Mass. ; (3.) dis of ancient Glaciers in Massachusetts. The 
second section has already appeared in this Journal; the others we 
propose to cite from at length in our next. 
hysical Geography; by Mary Somervitte, author of the con- 
nection of the “ Physical Sciences,” Mechanism of the Heavens, 
etc. An 
V.S. W. Ruscu rcER, M.D., U.S. 
Navy. 570 pp. 12mo. Philadelphia, i853. Blanchard and Lea.— 
The | Physical Geography of Mrs. Somerville, the most learned woman 
of the age, is alread well known, The whole range of the earth’s 
ap Gaenee of Philad Ke A. M.D., March 1, 
3.—This catalan of fh eggs embrace » 1323 ee pa 
of 493 genera. Of t 35 species, derived from all parts of pe 
urs, of Paris. The Australian species, numbering 246, sccompaie 
the splendid collection of birds from that county s Bata 
tinguished ornithologist Mr. John Goul at ie on, and Sih is now 
in the Museum of the Academy. The Cuba ok belonged to the 
callection of the well Sandee naturalist M. “ de la Sagra, and were 
presented by Mr. E. W 
