302 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Tour Apams, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., &c., Wintiam Datrour Baruiz, M.D., 
.R.S.E., and Cuarztes Barron, Curator of the Royal Naval Museum 
. at Haslar. 750 pp. 16mo. London, 1854. Jobn Van Voorst. 
12. The Microscope and its application to Chemical Medicine; by 
_ Lovett Beatz, M.B. London, Prof. of Physiology and General and 
Morbid Anatomy in King’s College, London. 302 pp. 12mo. London, 
man is beginning to be understood and appreciated. The Treatise of 
Prof. Beale is well calculated to instruct the student in the use of the 
instrument and in the methods of dissecting, preparing, and examining 
e modes of preparing tissues, the ney, liver, &c.; others to 
examinations of the brain, nerves, nervous and serous membranes, 
formation, a chapter is devoted to the injecting of preparations ; another 
t 
ence to the necessities of the medical man. The work is illustrated 
with a plate of crystalline substances, and numerous fine wood-cuts, 
among which are two large views of microscopes, and figures of the vari- 
ous tissues, cells, morbid growths or deposits, etc., described in the text. 
We observe that in the remarks on the application of a goniometer 
to the microscope, it states that ‘the simplest method of measuring the 
angles of microscopic crystals is that of Schmidt.””. This Mr. Schmidt, 
is Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, late of the Virginia University, and now of 
the Louisville Medical School. 
13. Report on the Geology of the Coast Mountains and part of the 
Sierra Nevada, embracing their industrial resources in Agriculture and 
Mining; by Dr. Jonn B. Trask. Assembly Doc., No. 9. San Francisco, 
July and October. The April Number contains Reviews of works 01 
Science, with notices of the contents of some prominent scientific per!- 
odicals in Zoology and Botany, and the Proceedings of Irish scientific 
societies. It promises to be a valuable work. 
15. Bibliographical Notices by M. Jerome Nickles. 
Methode de Chimie par A. Laurent, avec une notice par M. Bror. 
1 vol. in 8° de 460 pages. Paris, chez Mallet-Bachelier. 
Théorie Générale des effets dynamiques de la Chaleur, par F. REEcH, 
both calculations and reasoning being founded on the absurdity of ad- 
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