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Veneto: letta nel Novembre, 1850. Venezia, 1851. 8vo. — 

 From the Author. 



Giornale Fisico-chimico Italiano, ossia raccolta di scritti risguardanti 

 la Fisica e la Chimica degl' Italiani. Puntata 1, 2, 3, 4. Venezia, 

 1851. 8vo. — From Prof. Zantedeschi. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. Vol. 

 Xir. No. 36. Nov. 1S51. New Haven. 8vo.— From Profs. 

 Silliman and Dana, Editors. 



Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the Year 1850. Part I. 

 Arts and Manufactures. Washington, 1851. 8vo. — From the 

 Hon. Thomas Ewbank, Commissioner of Patents. 



The Dispensatory of the United States of America. By George B. 

 Wood, M.D. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, &c. &c. and Franklin Bache, 

 M.D. Professor of Chemistry in the Jefferson Medical College of 

 Philadelphia, &c. &c. Ninth Edition, carefully revised. Phila- 

 delphia, 1851. 8vo. — From Dr. Franklin Bache. 



A History of the Massachusetts General Hospital. By N. J. Bow- 

 ditch. Boston, 1851. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Historia de Mejico, desde los priraeros movimientos que prepararon 

 su independencia en el aiio 1808, hasta la epoca presente. Por 

 D. Lucas Alaman. Parte primera. Tomo IV. Mexico, 1851. 

 8vo. — From the Author. 



The Medical News and Library. Vol. IX. No. 107. November, 

 1851. Philadelphia. 8vo. — From Blanchard <^ Lea. 



Mr. Lea announced the death of Richard C. Taylor, a mem- 

 ber of this Society, who died on the 26th ultimo, at the age of 

 sixty-two. Mr. Lea gave an account of the life of the deceased, 

 and the services which he had rendered to literature and to 

 geological science. 



It is rarely we have to announce a greater loss to science than it 

 has sustained in the death of Richard Cowling Taylor, the eminent 

 Geologist and Mining Engineer, which occurred at his residence in 

 this city, on the 26th ult. Plis sudden decease, in the midst of active 

 professional employment, and scientific pursuits of the highest order, 

 has deprived this branch of knowledge in our country of one of its 

 brightest ornaments and most useful labourers. Early educated, in a 

 thorough manner, in his profession, in his own country, England, he 

 soon acquired a knowledge of Geology and Mine Engineering, which 

 brought him in connexion with the best science of the country, and 



