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15. An Essay on the Contagious character of Malignant Cholera, 
with brief instructions for its Prevention and Cure; by Bern. 
Byrne, M.D., Surgeon U.S. Army. 2nd edit., with addition! notes by 
the author. 160 pp., 8vo. Philadelphia, 1855. Childs & Petersen. 
p. 
16. The World a Workshop, or the Physical relationship of Man 
to the Earth; by Tuos. Ewxank, author of “* Hydraulics and Mechan- 
ies.” 198 pp., 12mo. New York, 1855. D. Appleton & Co.—This 
work is written for working men, and to them dedicated “asa testimony 
of respect to the dignity and omnipotence of enlightened labor.” It 
presents a view of nature mainly from the utility side, and at the same 
time is characterised by a high moral ton 
17. The Florist se Horticultural Journal, a monthly magazine of 
Horoalture, Agriculture, Botany, Agricultural Chemistry, Entomology, 
Anson, Editor. Philadelphia, vol. iv, No. 1, Jan., 1855. 
Each number of this Horticultural Journal contains 32 pages 
and is illustrated by one or more colored plates. The following per- 
sons are announced as among the contributors: John Le Conte, Esq., 
Profs. J. P. Kirtland, R. E. Rogers, 8S. S. Haldeman, W. B. Rogers, 
with John Cassin, W. D. Brackenridge, &c. 
18. Seventh Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the 
State of New York, on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural 
History, and the Historical and Antiquarian Collections, ee thereto. 
Made to the Senate, Jan. 18, ee PP Pee Albany, 1854.— 
This Report contains a valuable append the Ser idan of New 
York, by Seisiecigi F. Barrp, illustrated by Sipehrhe of 30 figures on two 
es. 
19, Wiediuck der krystallographischen Chemie, von C. F. Ram- 
MELSBERG. 410 pp., 8vo, with 401 wood-cuts. —Prof. Rammelsberg has 
here issued an excellent work on the tg vaieaggi of various chemical 
products, giving figures of most of the forms, and the angles in full. 
, Atexts Perrey: Note sur les Pigachlecicnts de Terre ressentis 
en 1853, (From Bulletin of the Acad. Roy. Belg. xxi, No. 6).—Note, 
ibid, a Supplements pour les années antérieurs. Mem. de l’Acad. 
de Dijo 1854. 
Tecumesth relatifs aux Fremblements de Terre au Chili, 208 
pp., large 8vo. emg : la Soc. Imp. d’Agriculture, d’Hist. Nat. et 
des Ans utiles de Lyo ns la Séance du 3 Mars , 1854.—A very 
complete and Peonte pom of the various accounts of eathquakes 
in Chili. 
1. E. Desor: Une ley Ascension, (Extrait de la Revue 
Suisse de Janvier, 1854) 25 pp., 8vo. ge atel, 1854.—On an as- 
cension of the Galenstock in yo Alps in 1 
climat des Etats Unis, et de ses ses sur les habitudes et les 
= Extr. des Actes de la Soc. Helv.°des Sci. Nat. session de 
1853 3 a "Paeretinciy. ) 
—— Notice sur les Echinides du Terrain nummulitique des alpes, 
d 
Actes Soc. Helv., &c. Session de 1853.)—These | nummulitic beds are 
gg to have close affinity with the Calcaire grossier of Paris, in their 
, and not with the lowest Tertiary or Suessonian of D’Orbigny. 
