) Miscellanies. 385 



11. Mr. BakeweWs Geology. — Third American from the fifth English 

 edition of 1838, revised and improved by the author : the American edi- 

 tion, by B. & W. Noyes, of New Haven : with an Appendix by Professor 

 Silliman : 8vo. pp. 600. 



Mr. Bakeweli's excellent treatise is well known in this country, in con- 

 sequence of the two American editions that have been already published; 

 its plan therefore requires no explanation, and commendation would be 

 quite superfluous in the case of a work already approved and extensively 

 adopted at home and abroad. Mr. Bakewell has added a new chapter 

 on the general removal and disappearance of the coal strata raised by 

 faults above the surface of the ground. The former editions were par- 

 ticularly full and instructive on coal, and this chapter is a valuable addi- 

 tion. 



The American editions, that of 1829, from the third English, and of 

 1833, from the fourth, were edited by Professor Silliman, with the author's 

 privity and approbation, and by his request this third edition is passed 

 over to the American public through the same editorial supervision ; with 

 a view of rendering the work more useful, an appendix will be added by 

 the editor, containing a condensed summary or}>..e ground before occu- 

 pied, with such corrections of fact and theory afe appear necessary. This 

 reprint is executed in good style, and numerous typographical errors 

 have been corrected. 



12. Elements of Geology; hy Charles Lyell, Esq., F. R. S., &c. 

 &c., London, Aug. 1838, pp. 543, 1 Vol. large 12mo. — ^These elements 

 are, as may be supposed, an abridgment of Mr. Lyell's large and well 

 known work, the Principles of Geology. This is a new work, and very 

 fully illustrated by figures, chiefly superior wood cuts, of great precision 

 and beauty : there is one colored ideal section of part of the earth's crust, 

 explaining the theory of the four great classes of rocks. 



Those who are acquainted with the author's previous works, will expect, 

 what they will find, a lucid and masterly exposition of the science. This 

 work might well be styled, " Institutes of Geology." 



It presents the elementary facts, perspicuously arranged and described, 

 and the philosophy of the science is such as those familiar with its more 

 profound discussions will readily appreciate. We understand that this 

 work is in the press at Philadelphia, by Kay & Brother, and that it may 

 be expected to appear early in the spring of the present year, 1839. 



13. Dr. Lewis C. Beck's Manual of Chemistry ; 3d edition, with nu- 

 merous wood cuts : New York — 1838 : pp. 482, large 12mo. — The order 

 of this work is — Definition, Attraction, Heat, Light, Electricity, Galvan- 

 ism, Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism, Elementary Bodies, Supporters 



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