20'3 Miscellanies. 



inferior to the American paper of the present period, and we have no 

 doubt that as soon as the American public will pay for the best paper, it 

 will be furnished by our manufacturers as has already been done in some 

 cases. 



The entire volume of Mr. Bakewell, as published by Messrs. Noyes, is 

 very handsome, and it is bound with an open back and strong cloth 

 covers, not needing to be re-bound. The retail price is $3.50. 



We have already spoken of the contents of the work, and it is not for 

 us to speak of the American Appendix. That addition can be read or 

 omitted as may be agreeable to the reader, although it is supposed, that 

 the topics discussed in it may be acceptable to some. The editor has not 

 disturbed the author's work. From this kind of license he has, when 

 acting as editor, always abstained ; conceiving that an author's produc- 

 tion is sacredly his own, and that no one has any right to mutilate his 

 pages. We believe the present edition of Bakewell's Geology, to be a 

 valuable addition to our geological literature. In connection with Mr. 

 Lyell's works, and those of Dr. La Beche, already republished in this 

 country, and the Wonders of Geology, of Dr. Mantel!, which will soon 

 appear in their London garb, but under American patronage, and at a 

 moderate price ; our sources of elementary information will be as am- 

 ple as can be desired, while our local surveys, and the able reports de- 

 scribing them, are adding daily to our knowledge, of the facts most in- 

 teresting to our prosperity, and to our progress in this branch of science. 



30. Chemistry of Organic Bodies and Vegetables, hy Thomas Thom- 

 son, M. D., S^c. S^c. S^c. — This elaborate work is a part of the system of 

 Dr. Thomson, of which that relating to heat and electricity, 1 vol. 8vo., 

 and the chemistry of inorganic matter, 2 vols. 8vo., appeared some years 

 ago, followed by that on mineralogy, geology, and mineral analysis, 2 

 vols. 8vo. ; and now we have another volume on the chemistry of vegeta- 

 ble substances, in 1 vol. 8vo., of more than 1000 pages. To this the inde- 

 fatigable author will still add another on the chemistry of animal matter, 

 and thus the circle of his works will be completed in seven volumes, most 

 of them large and full. 



This learned author will then have been about forty years before the 

 public, and no one in Great Britain has contributed more than he has 

 done to promote the progress of chemical knowledge. 



Always patient, laborious, vigilant and learned, he has risen above the 

 attacks (sometimes virulent and abusive) that have been made upon him, 

 and stands like a rock in the ocean, unmoved amidst the winds and the 

 waves. 



The volume on vegetable analysis is a compendium of the discoveries, 

 principally continental, and still more appropriately German, Prussian, 

 and French, which have been made within a small number of years. 



