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A Voyage Round the World ; including an Embassy to Muscat and 

 Siam, in 1835, 1836 and 1837. By W. S. W. Ruschenberger, 

 M. D-, Surgeon U. S. Navy, &c. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1838. — 

 From Mr. Lea. 



The Philadelphia Book; or Specimens of Metropolitan Literature. 

 12mo. 1836. — From Mr. Du Ponceau. 



Praktische Deutsche Sprachlehre zum Selbstunterricht und fiir Schu- 

 len. 12mo. Leipzig, 1801. — From the same. 



My Prisons, Memoirs of Silvio Pellico of Saluzzo. Two Vols. 12mo. 

 Cambridge, 1836. — From the same. 



Ethnological Extracts from the Monthly Chronicle; containing a 

 Paper, by Dr. Prichard, on the Extinction of Human Races, 

 &c, and a Communication on the Practicability of Civilizing Abo- 

 riginal Populations. — From, Dr. Hodgkin. 



The London Athenaeum, for December 28, 1839, containing the Me- 

 teorological Observations at the Apartments of the Royal Society, 

 for Twenty-five Successive Hours, commencing at 6 A. M. Dec. 

 21, 1839, and ending at 6 A. M. of the following day. By Mr. 

 J. D. Roberton, Assistant Secretary Royal Society. — From Mr. 

 Wm. Vaughan. 



Address, delivered by the Actuary, (Mr. Morgan) to the General 

 Court of the Equitable Society, on Thursday, the 5th Dec. 1839, 

 with Tables and Statements of Insurance on Lives, by the So- 

 ciety. — From the same. 



The American Medical Library and Intelligencer. By Robley Dun- 

 glison, M. D., &c. Vol. III. Nos. 23 and 24, (which conclude 

 the year) March 1 & 15. Philadelphia, 1840. — From the Editor. 



Lecture on the Advantages derived from Cultivating the Arts and 

 Sciences. By G. Emerson, M.D. Delivered before the Phila- 

 delphia Mercantile Library Association. Dec. 8, 1839. 8vo. 

 pp. 22. Philadelphia, 1840. 



FOR THE CABINET. 



A Musical Reed Instrument, consisting of fourteen Bamboo Reeds, 

 invented at Laos, and described in Ruschenberger's Voyage 

 Round the World. — Presented by Dr. Ruschenberger. 



The Committee, consisting of Dr. Patterson, Dr. Hare, and 

 Prof. Bache, to whom was referred a paper entitled " On a 

 new Principle in regard to the Power of Fluids in Motion to 



