212 Miscellanies. 



30. Chemical Tables, exhibiting the present state of our knowl- 

 edge in regard to the chemical and physical properties of simple and 

 compound bodies, by James F. W. Johnston. A. M., F. R. S. E., 

 F.G.S.,&fC. ^c. Parti. Edinburgh, 1836.— Several months 

 since we received a note from the author of these tables, accom- 

 panying a copy, and also a blank schedule for chemical information, 

 which was published in our last number, (p. 414.) Nothing but 

 want of space prevented our noticing them at that time. The tables 

 are drawn up at the request of the British Association, and they 

 present another proof of the services which that body is constantly 

 rendering to science. Prefixed to these tables is an explanation 

 of their object and use. Dr. Johnston states it as a prime object to 

 show what we do not know, as well as what we do ; and he justly 

 remarks, that some will be surprised to find how ignorant we are in 

 many particulars of the most familiar bodies. He uses the symbols 

 of Berzelius and the German chemists. Part 1st commences with 

 inorganic bodies, and the first section contains an exhibition of the 

 most important chemical and physical properties of the non-metallic 

 elementary substances, and of their mutual combinations. Such a 

 work is calculated to be highly useful, and to enlist new laborers in 

 the field of original research. 



NEW JOURNALS. 



31. Magazine of Zoology and Botany ; conducted by Sir Wm. 

 Jardine, Bart., P. J. Selby, Esq., and Dr. Johnston. — The first 

 No. of a Journal bearing the foregoing title was published last June. 

 Four numbers — those for June, August, October, and December, 

 have come to hand. If we may, from these numbers, judge what 

 its character is to be, it will take the lead in its own departments, as 

 well for original research and accurate monographs, as for a succinct 

 and interesting abstract of all that is new, both in facts and the issues 

 of the press. The names of its conductors are too justly celebrated 

 to gain additional lustre from any thing we can say of them. Its 

 character, we learn from the prospectus, is to be more scientific than 

 that of any of the pre-existing journals of Natural History, and thus 

 far it is well sustained. 



32. Thomson^s Records of Science. — It is now nearly two years 

 since the first number of this excellent Journal made its appearance, 



