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M. peKose zt has resumed in the Academy of Munich, the pro- 
gress of Mineralogy, (Uber die Fortschritte der Mineralogie. Mu- 
nich, 4to.) 
The annual mineralogical publication by M. Guocxer of Breslau, 
entitled Mineralogische Jahreshefte deserves to be well received 
by the public, for at present there is no other work especially devo- 
ted to the progress of Mineralogy, a science which is particularly 
cultivated in Germany. Formerly, Lronuarp performed this ser- 
vice in his excellent Taschenbuch. The progress of chemical min- 
eralogy still continues to be correctly reported in the Annales des 
Mines, the Philosophical Magazine, and in the yearly reports of Ber- 
ZELIUS ; whilst three or four German journals embrace more partic- 
ularly the new discoveries of crystallographical mineralogy. 
Geology every where makes inroads upon the domains of Mine- 
ralogy, so much the more, as the progress of this last science becomes 
more difficult to follow from the accumulation of chemical analyses, 
and from the impossibility of seeing and handling what is supposed 
to be sufficiently indicated by a formula. The Crystallographer 
gives us at least, the means of recognizing minerals, while the chem- 
ist seems to compel us to analyze every mineral that we obtain. 
M. Guocker commences with the recent progress of mineralogy, 
after which he enters into details concerning the discoveries made in 
crystallography, and in the physical and chemical properties of min- 
erals ; finally, he reviews the different families of minerals, in order 
to particularize the new species, and the new observations made upon 
species before known. 
Frep. Avex. Hartmann has announced a similar work for 1834, 
under the title of Repertortum der Mineralogie, etc. Leipzic, 8vo. 
Serarp Grauwute has published in London a syntax of mineral- 
ogy, or a view of the natural families of simple, double, and com- 
pound minerals, forming a circle of affinities. (Syntax of Mineralo- 
gy, &c. London, 1833, 1 sheet fol.) 
M. C. Savucrrorrs is about to present under the form of synop- 
tic tables with figures, the Elements of Natural History, and has 
commenced by giving a table of mineralogy, (Paris, 1833, 4to.) 
M. Avex. Bronentart has published a new edition of his Tableau 
de la distribution Méthodique des espéces minérales, suivie dans son 
Cours de Minéralogie. 
F. peKosett has contrived tables for the determination of min- 
erals by means of simple chemical essays by the dry or the humid 
