Miscellaneous Intelligence. 449 
and animal, is treated of ina oe at of view, in this elabo- 
rate work of Dr. Carpenter: and there o Treatise in the English 
language, that covers the e ground in so nbn a manner. 
20. Human Physiology, designed for Colleges and the higher Classes 
in Schools, and for general reading ; by WortnIneTon aprey te M.D 
0 pp. 12mo, with nearly 200 wood-cuts. New York, 1854. Far- 
mer, Brace & Co.—Dr. Hooker writes with rr explains diffi- 
cult points wiih simplicity, and adapts his subject well 10 school in- 
struction and general reading. His work treats first, oli general 
distinctions of organized and unorganized substances, the distinctions of 
animals and plants, and man’s relations to the three kin gdoms of na- 
ture ; second, of the Human Structure as bearing on Physiology ; ; and 
third, the uses for which the structure is design 
1. Science and Mechanism Illustrated by Examples in the New 
rork Exhibition, 1853-54 ; including extended descriptions of the 
most important contributions i in the various departments, with annota- 
tions and notes relative to the td and present state of applied 
Science and the useful Arts. Edited by E. R. Goopricn, Esq., aided 
by Professors svi and Sinuiman, fae other scientific and practical 
ew York, es P. Putnam & Co. 1854. _ 4to, pp. 258, with nu- 
merous illustration 
This long obiiel volume has at last appeared and is published in 
a uniform style with the Illustrated Record, of last year. It embraces 
a vast variety of information, much of it novel and curious, upon the 
wide range of topics covered by its 31 Classes. The parts devoted to 
Mineralogy, Geology and Mining (Class I.) to Chemical and Pharma- 
ceutical products (Class II.) and to Ap en. 2a Instruments (Class X.) 
are those most interesting to men of scien As space does not per- 
mit at this moment any extended distin of its contents, we shall take 
occasion to refer to it again at an early day. 
22. History of the Fishes of oo, by Davin Humpureys 
Srorer.—We have just received a second part of this valuable work, 
extending from page 91 to130. It shaban iasignens of species of 
the Genera er Gunnellus, Zoarces, Anarrhicas, Lophius, Chiro» 
tan Free Hospital, &c. 234 pp. 12mo., with 102 wood-cuts. Phila- 
delphia, 1854. Blanchard & Lea —There is little of almost every- 
thing in a small stodesiess volume. 
‘ystem der thierischen Mi orphologie, von Dr. J. Vieror Carus, 
Prof. der vergleichenden Anatomie in Leipzig. 506 pp. 8vo, with 97 
wood-cuts. Leipzig, 1 m. Engelmann.—Dr. Carus, the learned 
Comparative Anatomist of Leipzig, discusses in a manner both philo- 
sophical and profound, the general principles of form i structure in 
the animal kingdom. The structures of the different simple and complex 
organs are described with comprehensive views of their relations ; next 
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