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ogy, and Keeper of the Museum. In 1798, he published on the Miner- 
alogy of the Shetland Isles and the islands of Canary; in 1800, ap- 
peared his ** Outlines of the Mineralogy of the Scottish Isles ;” in 1808 
his “* System of Mineralogy.” In 1819 he commenced in connection 
with Dr. (now Sir David) Brewster the publication of the Edinburgh 
Philosophical Journal, after the 10th volume of which he became the 
sole editor. Prof. Jameson also published various memoirs, and large- 
ly promoted the progress of Science by his labors and influence. 
13. Elementary Geology; by Epwarp Hircxucocx, D.D., LL.D., Pres. 
Amherst Coll. and Prof. Nat. Theol. and Geol. ew edition, revised, 
18 pp. 
14. Archives de Physiologie de Therapeutique et d’ Hygiéne, sous la 
direction de M. BoucHarpatT, . @hygiéne a la Faculié de Médecine 
e Paris. No. 1, Janvier, 1854. Mémoire sur la Digitaline et la Dig- 
This first number of the Archives, extending to 376 pp. 8vo, 
pied with the elaborate memoir of MM. Homolle and Quevenne on 
Digitaline. 
15. Lectures on Histology, delivered at the Royal College of Sur- 
ons of England in the session 1851-52, by Joun QuexeTT, Resident 
Conservator of the Mus. Roy. Coll. Surgeons of England and Professor 
of Histology. Vol. II, Structure of the Skeleton of Plants and Inver- 
lebrate Animals. 413 pp. 8vo, with 264 wood-cuts. London, 1854. 
H. Bailliere.— These lectures treat in a popular way, a J 
partments with considerable detail, of the structure of invertebrate ani- 
mals. The work commences with Sponges, and passes then to the Di- 
atomaces, Polythalamia, Zoophytes, Echinodermata, Echini, Mollusca, 
and Annglata. Sa 
16. Iilustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British 
ussian America, intended to contain descriptions and figures of 
fee 
Blandingiana), the American House-Finch (Carpodacus familiaris), the 
Long-tailed Chickadee ( sep Red-breasted Teal 
