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tion is in the same superior style as that of the first volume : the third 

 volume of this very valuable work may be shortly expected. 



3. The JVorth American Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 

 XVII. January, 1830. Philadelphia : pp. 240. A circular accom- 

 panying this number says, " This work, instituted for the purpose of 

 diffusing enlarged and instructive views of Theoretical and Practical 

 Medicine, and its auxiliary branches, has been assiduously continued 

 in the same spirit. Its pages are filled with whatever is calculated 

 to promote sound ethics and improve the practice of the profession. 

 Ancient and modern Medical literature, in Reviews and Biographical 

 JVotices — salutary reforms, and useful suggestions, in Original Com- 

 munications ; a carefully prepared digest of all the current events, so 

 as to constitute the chronicles of the science, in a Quarterly Summa- 

 ry, have composed the materials for each successive number of this 

 Journal, from its first appearance in January, 1826, down to the pres- 

 ent time." The number before us contains six original communica- 

 tions, among the authors of which we recognize some of our most 

 distinguished practitioners : the editors are gentlemen of the highest 

 respectability in their department, and the work is a fair sample of 

 the progress of " the sciences of observation," for which our country 

 is beginning to attract attention. 



4. Conversations on the Animal Economy : designed for the in- 

 struction of youth and the perusal of general readers ; by Isaac Ray, 

 M. D. : Portland, 12mo. pp. 242. An interesting work. 



5. The Southern Agriculturist, and Register of Rural Affairs ; 

 adapted to the southern section of the United States: published 

 monthly : Editor, J. D. Legare, Esq. We are gratified with every 

 thing which tends to bring out the resources of our country. 

 Those of an agricultural kind, in the southern portions, are yet but 

 little known : the writings of Flint have placed the south western 

 states before us in a light of which we had scarcely any conception 

 before : the periodical under notice exhibits the south eastern parts 

 in an interesting view. It has reached the commencement of its 

 third year, and appears to be an important auxiliary to the agriculture 

 of that section of the country. 



6. Messrs. Carey &. Lea, Philadelphia, have in press, Elements of 

 Myology, by John D. Godman, M. D. illustrated by a series of beau- 

 tiful engravings of the muscles of the human body, on apian heretofore 

 unknown in this country. 



