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culture and Metallurgy. By Chaeles T. Jackson, M. D. Published 

 by order of the Legislature ; Concord, N. H., Caroll & Baker, Printers. 

 376 pp. 4to, with several lithographs and wood-cuts^ maps and sections. 

 — We only announce the appearance of this volume at the present time, 

 intending to give an analysis of it in the next number. The volume is 

 highly valuable, alike for its geological, mineralogical, and agricultural 

 information. The chemist, mineralogist and geologist, practical and the- 

 oretical, are happily united in its author, and the work exhibits strongly 

 the advantage of this union. The single discovery of the ore of tin in 

 New Hampshire, is more than a return for the expenses of the survey. 

 The work is got up in a handsome style ; though from Concord, N. H. 

 it will bear comparison with the best works from the Boston press. 



3. The Taconic System, lased on Observations in Neio York, Mas- 

 sachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and Rhode Island ; by Prof. Ebenezer 

 Emmons, M. D. 67 pp., 4to, with six lith. plates. Albany, 1844. — 

 The Taconic System of Prof. Emmons includes slates, limestones and 

 sandstones lying, in his view, beneath the oldest and inferior members 

 of the New York system, and resting unconformably upon the primary 

 schists. This position, the fossils, and the peculiarity in the relative 

 arrangement of the members of the series, are considered as sustaining 

 the independence of this system. Although the conclusions may not 

 be received by all geologists, the work with its fine illustrations is an 

 important contribution to the science. We have no space in this num- 

 ber to present our own views upon the subject. 



4. American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science ; con- 

 ducted by Dr. E. Emmons and Dr. A. J. Prime. Vol. I, No. 1. Jan. 

 Feb. and March. 184 pp., 8vo. $3.00 per annum. — This is the title 

 of a quarterly Agricultural Journal, which has just appeared at Albany. 

 It embraces a wider and higher scope than the other agricultural period- 

 icals of the country, aiming not only to disseminate scraps of informa- 

 tion and gleanings from other Journals, but also to give series of articles 

 in successive numbers upon subjects of interest, which together shall 

 constitute complete treatises upon the same, including all the useful in- 

 formation relating to them, that may be required by the practical agri- 

 culturalist. From the ability of the editors and the appearance of the 

 present number, we feel assured that the work will prove a most valu- 

 able acquisition to the American farmer. 



5. Report on American Coals to the Navy Department of the United 

 States. By Walter E. Johnson ; 600 pp. 8vo. Washington, 1844. 

 — These investigations, of which the results are here detailed, were 



