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 NOTICES AND COMMUNICATIONS. 



1. Copper ore of Strafford, Vt. &c. 383 



2. Scientific names of certain plants, - - - - - 384 



3. Graduation of the Mohawk and Hudson rail road, - - 385 



4. 5. Inflammable gas issuing- from water pipes in New York — 



Remarks on the Fine Arts, ------ 386 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



1. American translation of Cuvier's Regne Animal, - - 388 



2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Prof. Eaton's Geological Text-Book— Prof. Lind- 



ley"'s introduction to the natural system of Botany — Ele- 

 mentary work on Conchology — Conrad's Marine Conchol- 

 ogy — New work on Mineralogy, 389 



7. The Journal of a Naturalist, ------ 390 



8. Chancellor Kent's address before the ^BK Society of Yale 



College, 391 



Experiments on the disinfecting powers of increased tempera- 

 tures, with a view to the suggestion of a substitute for Quar- 

 antine ; by William Henry, M. D. F. R. S. &,c. - - - 392 



Notice of the volcanic island thrown up between Pantellaria 

 and Sciacca; by William Ainsworth, Esq. M.R. S.L. &c. 399 



Chloric Ether, - - 405 



