302 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
mend the work for its beauty as well as its science, and would urge all 
to —— for it, who wish it complet 
. The Natural History of Man: ego tt Inquiries into the Modi- 
Fae influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the different Tribes 
of the Human Family; by James Cownes PricnarD, M.I)., F.R.S., 
M. &c.: 4th edition, edited and enlarged by Epwin Norris, 
of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Lesiitd: lilustrated 
with 62 colored plates, engraved on steel, and 100 eeaig eg on wood, 
In two volumes,*of 720 pages, 8vo. 1855. London, H. Bailli¢re.— 
The great value and interest of Prichard’s “ Natural Histone of Man” 
has long been acknowledged. It is the only work in our language that 
takes up this eee in so extended and thorough a manner, and the 
original work, or any modifications beyond what was required by the 
new information adde 
22. Queke we Practical eee on the use of the yee 8d 
edition, forming vol. vi, of * Library of Illustrated Standa i- 
entific Works,”’ 556 pp., ag with 10 plates and many w dou Lon- 
don, 1855. H. Bailliére.—This edition of Quekett’s Treatise on the 
Microscope, a work already familiar to our readers, has just been is- 
sued in superior style by H. Bailliére. 
23. Human Longevity and the amount of life upon the Globe ; by 
¥: dhs neta perpetual Sec’y. to the Academy of Sciences, Paris, &e, 
Second edition, translated from the ieee s by CHarLes MARTEL. 
198 pp., 12mo, 1855. London: H. Bailliére—We have derived from 
this book both amusement and instruction. "The author extols the hap- 
py calmness of old age, and argues from physiology, hygiene and anal- 
ogy that the natural period of man’s life is one hundred years, and that 
if his life is cut short before that term he is killed—he does not die be- 
fore the full century, Taking into view the fact that the perfect union 
of the bones with the epiphyses takes place in man at 20 years, and re- 
garding this anatomical sign as a proof of complete alanine me a 
close of the period of youth—and further assumin gt nisin of a 
growth as one-fifth of the whole duration of life, he Ce at one 
hundred years as the full term of life for man. He observes, by way 
of analogy, that— j 
In the Camel this union takes place at 8 years; period of life 40 years. 
Horse e ‘ 5° 6 grees | 
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Lion, - : - are cilia ‘4 
og, a ‘ i 9 se “ 10 a 
ae - - 18 mon. « 9tol0 
Rabbit, - . Pes ee “ 8 
Guinea Pig, - A as &“ ee 
_ The book will repay a careful peru 
nnals of the Astronomical (pee of Harvard College, 
vol. i, Part I], 1852-1853. Printed from funds resulting from the will J 
