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The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge, for the Year of our Lord, 1849. London. 8vo. 

 From Petty Vaugkan, Esq. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 16. November 1, 

 1848. London. 8vo. — From the Geological Society of London. 



Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VIIL 

 No. 9. Supplement. London. 8vo. — From the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, 

 Botany, and Geology. Second Series. Vol. II. Nos. 11 and 12. 

 November and December, 1848. London. 8vo. — From Sir 

 William Jar dine, Bart. 



A Stratigraphical Account of the Section from Atherfield to Rocken- 

 end, on the South-west Coast of the Isle of Wight. By William 

 Henry Fitton, M.D., F.R.S., &c. London, 1847. S\o.—From 

 the Author. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Vol. I. Ancient Monu- 

 ments of the Mississippi Valley ; comprising the results of origi- 

 nal extensive Surveys and Explorations. By E. G. Squier, A.M. 

 and E. PL Davis, M.D. Washington, 1848. 4to.— i^rom the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Journal of the Franklin Institute. Third Series. Vol. XVII. No. 1. 

 January, 1849. Philadelphia. 8vo. — Fro?n the Institute. 



Map of the Battle Ground of Cerro Gordo, from Surveys made by 

 Major Turnbull and Capt. M'Clellan, of the Topographical En- 

 gineers. — From Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll. 



The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy. 

 Published under the direction of the "Philadelphia Society for 

 Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons," instituted in 1787. 

 Vol. IV. No. 1. January, 1849. Philadelphia. 8vo.— From 

 the Prison Society. 



Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a Report by 

 the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, on an application of the 

 Galvanic Circuit to an Astronomical Clock and Telegraph Regis- 

 ter, in determining local differences of Longitude, and in astro- 

 nomical observations generally. Washington, January, 1849. 

 8vo. — From Sears C. WalJcer, Esq. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools 

 of Pennsylvania, for the School Year ending June 1, 1848. By 

 Townsend Haines, Superintendent. Harrisburg, 1849. 8vo. — 

 From Thomas C. Steel, Esq., H. R. 



