403 Miscellanies. 



In the journal are contained, not only original British papers, but 

 reprints or abstracts of the principal things published on these sub- 

 jects in other European countries and in the United States. Figures 

 are liberally supplied in handsome lithographed plates, and we can- 

 not doubt, that a periodical work on these very important subjects, 

 conducted with so much spirit and ability, will be fully sustained and 

 prove eminently beneficial. We heartily wish it success, and hope it 

 will be extensively patronized in this country. The price of each 

 No. is 25. Qd. sterling. Mr. Sturgeon is assisted by gentlemen emi- 

 nent in the departments of philosophy to which the journal is devoted. 



The Electrical Society have commenced their publications in a 

 quarto* form ; the first No. contains the rules and regulations of the 

 society, and a manly, sensible, introductory discourse, by Mr. Stur- 

 geon, setting forth the objects in view. The second No. contains two 

 papers on important subjects. 



1. The action of the Voltaic battery shown to be two-fold, and the 

 distinction between the terms quantity and intensity determined by the 

 theory of vibration ; with a re2:)ly to the various objections made to 

 the theory, by Mr. Thomas Pollock, read Oct. 21st, and Nov. 4th, 1837. 



2. Description of some experiments made with the Voltaic battery, 

 by Andrew Crosse, Esq., of Broomfield, near Taunton, for the pur- 

 pose of producing crystals, in the process of which, certain insects 

 constantly appeared. Communicated in a letter, dated Dec. 27th, 

 1837, addressed to the secretary of the London Electrical Society. 



21. Columhite and tin-ore at Beverly, Mass. — Prof. Shepard finds 

 small 12-sided prisms of columbite and hemitropic crystals of tin-ore, 

 in the green feldspar-rock, discovered by the late Dr. Cornelius. 



22. Geological and other reports. 



We have before us, 



1. Dr. Charles T. Jackson's Second Report on the Geology of 

 Maine. Augusta, Maine. 1838. pp. 168. 



2. His Second Annual Report on the Geology of the public lands 

 belonging to the States of Massachusetts and Maine, pp. 93. 



3. Professor Hitchcock's Report on the Re-examination of the eco- 

 nomical Geology of Massachusetts, in relation to its soils, agriculture, 

 fuel, ores, &c. &c. 



4. Second Report on the Geology of New York, being State docu- 

 ment IN o. 200. pp.384. 



* A very inconvenient form for an active society, whose publications ought to be 

 easily portable without injury, even about the person, and as cheap as is consistent 

 with ethciency and respectability. — Eds. 



