198 Miscellanies. 



54. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



American. 



Natural History of Insects, 2d Series ; being vol. Ixxiv of Har- 

 per's Family Library. 18mo. New YorJc. 



Troost, (G.) M. D., Prof, of Chem. Min. and Geol. in the Nash- 

 ville University: Third Geological Report to the twenty first Gen- 

 eral Assembly of the State of Tennessee. Made Oct. 1835. 8vo. 

 32 pp. Nashville. 1835. 



The Elements of Geometry. 114 pp., 8vo. New York. 1836. 



Catlin, (John Ruggles,) : Synopsis of Lectures on Geology. 

 120 pp. 8vo. Taunton. 1835. 



GiBBEs, (Lewis R.) : A Catalogue of the Phenogamous Plants 

 of Columbia and its vicinity. 13 pp., 8vo. Columbia, S. C. 1835. 



Monography of the Family Unionida or Naiades of Lamarck 

 (fresh water bivalve shells) of North America. Illustrated by fig- 

 ures drawn on stone from nature. By T. A. Conrad, Cur. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. of Philadelphia. Nos. 2, 3, 4 ; for January, February and 

 March. 12 pp. each. 



Contents of No. 2. — Unio Mortoni, fragosus, costatus, retusus, parvus, Glans, 

 siliquoideus, radiatus. 



3. — U. pectorosus, fasciolus, congaraeus, Masoni, coccineus, catilluSj productus, 

 lanceolatus, rectus. 



4. — U. crassus, viridis, ochraceus, nasutus, icterinus, cariosus. 



This work is very neatly executed. Of each species there is 

 given a painted lithographic drawing, exhibiting very exactly the 

 minutest peculiarities of the different shells. The drawings are ac- 

 companied with a scientific description of the species, followed by 

 general observations. 



Reprints. — Moffatt, (J. M.) : The Scientific Class Book, or a 

 Familiar Introduction to the principles of physical science, for the 

 use of schools, See. ; with additions, by Walter R. Johnson, A. M. 

 Part II. Philadelphia:. Key h Biddle. 



Foreign. 

 general natural history. 



Nightingale, (Thomas) Esq. : Oceanic Sketches, with a Bo- 

 tanical Appendix by Dr. Hooker. Post, 8vo. London. 1835.- 



Brown, (Capt. Thomas) F. L. S. &:c. ; assisted by eminent scien- 

 tific and literary men : The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History 



