426 Miscellanies. 



Atlas, with a view of the Solar System. Illustrated by Engravings. 

 By E. H. Biirritt, A. M. Second edition, 18mo. pp. 342. Hart- 

 ford, F. J. Huntington. 



Contributions to Geology. By Isaac Lea, M. A. P. S., &,c. Phila- 

 delphia, Carey, Lea h Blanchard. 8vo. pp. 227, with 8 copper 

 plates. 



Elements of Chemistry, with practical exercises, for the use of 

 schools, by F. J. Grund. 12mo. pp. SOL Carter, Hendee &; Co. 

 Boston. 



Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology of Mas- 

 sachusetts. Made and published by order of the Government of that 

 state : in four parts. — Part I, Economical Geology. — Part II, Topo- 

 graphical Geology. — Part III, Scientific Geology. — Part IV, Cata- 

 logues of Animals and Plants. With a descriptive list of the speci- 

 mens of Rocks and Minerals collected for the Government. Illus- 

 trated by numerous wood cuts and an Atlas of Plates. By Edward 

 Hitchcock, Prof, of Chem. and Nat. Hist, in Amherst College. Am- 

 herst, Press of J. S. k, C. Adams. Bvo. pp. 700. 



Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. New 

 Series, Vol. L, 4to. pp. xxxi, and 595. Cambridge, Printed by 

 Chas. Folsom. 



Contents. — Discourse in commemoration of John Adams and Tiiomas Jeiferson • 

 delivered before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oct. SO, 1826. By 

 John Thornton Kirkland, Vice Pres-. of the Academy. 



I. Remarks on Longevity and the Expectation of Life in the United States, rela- 

 ting more particularly to the Slate of New Hampshire, with some comparative views 

 in relation to foreign countries, by J. E. Worcester, A. A. S. 



IL A Table of the Longitude and Altitude of the Nonagesimal Degree in 42° 23' 

 28" of N. Lat. for every minute of the Right Ascension of the Meridian. With the 

 corrections of the Table for a decrease of 100'' in the Obliquity, and of 1000" in the 

 Geographical Latitude. By Robert T. Paine, A. A. S. 



III. On the Latitude of Boston. By Robert T. Paine, A. A. S. 



IV. Tables of the Present Value of a Life-Annuity at any age, according to Dr. 

 Wigglesworth's Bill of Mortality. By J. IngersoU Bowditch. 



V. Occultations and Eclipses, observed at Dorchester, Mass. By W. Cranch 

 Bond. 



VI. Observations on the Comparative Rates of Marine Chronometers. By W. 

 Cranch Bond. 



VII. Remarks and Inquiries concerning the Birds of Massachusetts. By Thomas 

 Nuttall, A. A. S. 



VIII. A Meteorological Journal fiom the year 1786 to the year 1829, inclusive, 

 by Edward A. Holyoke, M. D., A. A. S. With a prefatory Memoir by Enoch Hale, 

 M. D.,A.A. S. 



