403 JVliscellanies. 



the Medical Sciences, mineralogical examination of ihe Eastern 

 States intended for publication, and a considerable proportion of his 

 essays on the Materia Medica, in the loss of which the public have 

 reason to sympathise with him. The fire had a terrific appearance, 

 owing to the combustible nature of the contents of the store, and was 

 seen some distance from the city. Mr. Carpenter bears strong tes- 

 timony to the efficiency and zeal of the firemen, by which the adja- 

 cent houses were rescued from destruction, and a portion of his own 

 saved when its total loss seemed inevitable." 



We learn from Mr. Carpenter, that a part of his books and papers 

 was saved ; that the upper stories of his buildings filled with drugs 

 and chemical preparations were rescued, and that his collection of 

 minerals in a back building was entirely preserved. 



6. The Cabinet of J^atural History and American Rural Sports, 

 with illustrations ; monthly; quarto; by J. ^T. Doughty, Fhila- 

 delphia. — This elegant, interesting, and instructive magazine has now 

 gone through nearly two volumes. Occupying a middle station between 

 Journals strictly and drily scientific, and those which are merely pop- 

 ular, and being beautifully illustrated by colored engravings, not less 

 remarkable for the exhibition of the appropriate scenery of landscape 

 than of accurate figures of birds and animals, would seem to be entitled 

 to an extensive patronage ; a patronage commensurate not only with 

 the heavy expences of such a vi^ork, but with the talents, taste, industry, 

 and enterprize of its respectable proprietors. Nothing but the pres- 

 sure of numerous duties has prevented us from naming it at an earlier 

 day, and we regret, that at almost the latest moment of our present num- 

 ber, we can do little more than to express our mortification that it is 

 in danger of being discontinued for want of adequate patronage. It 

 would be little to the credit of our boastful country, that a work of 

 so attractive and respectable a character, which exhibits and fosters 

 beautiful and useful arts, as well as science and rational entertain- 

 ment, should die of penury, when there is bread enough and to spare. 

 We have had too many instances already of the suspension or failure 

 of most useful and respectable periodical works for want of pecuniary 

 support ; a support which might be easily rendered adequate widiout 

 any retrenchment from comforts, and with hardly a diminution of lux- 

 uries and superfluities. Good periodical journals, in literature, sci- 

 ence, and the arts, contribute much to improve the public mind at 

 home, and to raise our character abroad, and the nation should be 

 slow to relinquish such works, (an important portion of national pro- 



