208° Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
12. Gregory's Handbooks of Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic.*—A 
careful reprint of the latest English edition of Dr. Gregory’s ‘ Handbooks’ 
(the English editions of which are marred by numerous typographical 
errors) would be a valuable addition to our chemical literature. The 
in part i, p. 140—i.e. in the Am. reprint to galvanic decomposition— 
while the reference is unaltered from the original English edition of 
1847 now before us.) Even the trivial typographical inaccuracies W ich 
any careful proof-reader should have corrected remain unchanged. In 
act the old plates have been used by the new publishers, who are re- 
taken to supply to the inorganic chemistry the Physics of Chemistry, 
and to add to the organie part a “ supplement,” which is said to bring 
e manner in which he has 
Dr 
handbook, and in eomneetrplaaiats the results of his labors to this end 
iscourses as follows, in the preface. “ Whilst the matter prefixed to 
this invaluable work of Dr. Gregory cannot be designated a comp! 
io: e greater portion of it being written in the language of 
| [no one, we feel gq 
authorship], “it still cannot aspire to the dignity of an original com- 
position.” “The entire subject of the Imponderables is condensed as 
* Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry, for the use of students, by Wi.11am GREG 
ony, Blt FRSE, Professor of Cees in the University. of Edinburgh. 4th 
American from the 3d English edition, to which is added Phe Physics of Ohem- 
istry, by J. Mictox Sanpers, M.D, LL.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Eclecte 
Medical Institute of Cineinnati, Member of the American Association for the A 
a a of Or etc. New York: .A. S. Barnes & Co., 51 and 53 Jobn st. 
1. 8y0, pp. 426. ; a: 
Handbook of Organic Chemistry, by the same. ,4th American from the 4th Lon: 
don edition, with a Supplement. ‘8vo, pp. 480. : , 
