Miscellanies. 403 



5. Annual Report of the Regents of the University. No. 53. March 

 1, 1838. pp. 220. 



6. First Report on the Agriculture of Massachusetts, by Henry 

 Colman, commissioner for the Agricultural Survey of the State, 

 pp. 139. 



7. First Annual Report of the Board of Education, &c. Boston. 

 1838. pp. 75. 



8. Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education on the sub- 

 ject of School Houses, supplementary to the above, pp. 64. 



9. The statistical tables of Massachusetts. Except the last, which 

 was mentioned at p. 213 of this volume, these reports, important as 

 they are, must, for the present, stand with only a titular enrollment. 

 We have fully the will, but at present, have not the power to do more. 

 We trust that some of them, and especially those on geology, will be 

 mentioned hereafter. 



Journal of an Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, in 

 1835-6, and 7; by Rev. Samuel Parker, A. M. With a map and an 

 engraving. Ithaca, N. Y. 1838. pp. 378, large 12mo. 



Blr. Parker's tour was made under the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions, with particular reference to the Indians. 



This main object is kept steadily in view, and there is much valua- 

 ble information in the work in relation to the aborigines, whose in- 

 teresting condition and ultimate prospects are deservedly exciting the 

 sympathies, exertions, and contributions of the christian people of the 

 United States. 



The work contains also numerous facts of deep scientific interest, 

 especially in relation to the ample and decisive proofs of igneous 

 action and of earthquakes in the Rocky mountains, and the country 

 between them and the Pacific. It would give us pleasure to make an 

 abstract in relation to trap, basalt and undoubted modern volcanic pro- 

 ducts, but as we have neither room nor time, we can only recommend 

 the perusal of the work both to the lovers of nature and of man.* 



British Annual and Epitome of the progress of Science, for 1838, 

 edited by Robt. D. Thomson, M. D. Lond. 1838. 18mo. cloth, let- 

 tered, pp. 387. This valuable work was preceded last year by a sim- 

 ilar volume, containing Recent progress of Optical Science, by Prof. 

 Powell ; Experiments and Observations on visible Vibration and No- 

 dal division, by C. Tomlinson, Esq. ; Recent Progress of Astronomy, 

 by W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., &c. ; the History of Magnetical Dis- 



* We cannot, however, entirely recommend the cosmogony of the 16th chapter, 

 and a few words, which we could wish had been omitted, especially as the style is 

 in general, simple, lucid, and graphic. 



