Miscellanies. 213 



and although we have never before mentioned it to our readers, they 

 u'ill remember that it has often enriched our pages, and we also hope 

 that many of them have a more familiar acquaintance with it. While 

 it has fully maintained its character as a scientific journal of the first 

 class, its pages have not been too much engrossed by mathematics 

 and mere technicalities. We are sorry to learn from its able con- 

 ductor, that like some of its cotemporaries it has lived by the hardest, 

 and thus far barely paid its expenses. May it live to see brighter 

 days, as it richly deserves. 



33. The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry, and 

 Guardian of Experimental Science; conducted by William Stur- 

 geon. London, October, 1836, Vol. I, No. 1. Published quar- 

 terly. Price 2s. 6d. — A new journal of the above title has been 

 sent us by the Editor, since the publication of our last number. Its 

 prospectus states that it is to be devoted entirely to recording all 

 that is new and interesting, either theoretical or practical, that may 

 appear on the branches to which it is confined. We hope that it may 

 prove itself worthy of support, and receive the assistance of able men, 

 so many of whom are now engaged in these most important branches 

 of research. The number before us contains two papers from our 

 distinguished countryman, Dr. Hare. Also an account of some ex- 

 periments by Dr. Henry, of Princeton, (erroneously stated to be of 

 Yale College,) as related to Mr. Sturgeon by Col. Peabody, of Sa- 

 lem, Mass. 



OBITUARY. 



It is with feelings of the deepest sorrow that we are called on to 

 record the death of Dr. Turner, the distinguished author of " Ele- 

 ments of Chemistry." In the ^^ Athenteum,^^ of February 18th, we 

 find the following painfully interesting facts : 



" He died on Sunday, 12th February, at his residence at Hamp- 

 stead, aged 40. The immediate cause of his death was inflamma- 

 tion of the lungs, which commenced in an attack of influenza. He 

 had been suffering for many years under chronic affection of the in- 

 testines, by which his strength was extremely reduced. 



"Dr. Edward Turner was born in Jamaica, but was early removed, 

 for his education, to England. He graduated as Doctor of Medi- 

 cine in Edinburgh. Having determined to make Chemistry the 



