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Natural Knowledge. By Thomas Sprat. 4to. London, 1667.- — 

 From Dr. Hare. 



Trois Planches d' Ammonites, par Leopold de Buch. Folio. — From 

 the Author. 



Observations of the Magnetic Intensity at Twenty-one Stations in 

 Europe. By A. D. Bache, LL.D., President of the Girard Col- 

 lege for Orphans, one of the Secretaries of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, &c. (From Vol. VII. of the Transactions of 

 the Society.) 4to. — From the Author. 



Boletin Enciclopedico de la Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais, 

 &c. &c. «Sz;c. Numerol. Enero, 1840. 8vo. Valencia, 1840. — 

 From the Society. 



A Discourse on the Death of General Washington, late President of 

 the United States; delivered on the 22d of February, 1800, in the 

 Church in Williamsburg. By James Madison, D. D., Bishop of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, and President of 

 William and Mary College. Third Edition, with Additions. 8vo. 

 Philadelphia, 1Q31. —From Col. Hugh Mercer, of Fredericks- 

 burg. 



Sundry Biographical Notices of Brigadier General H. Mercer, and 

 Accounts of the Battle of Trenton. — From the same. 



FOR THE CABINET. 



Several Stones, worked by the Indians with Stone Hammers, found 

 in an Indian workshop, five miles from Paradise, near Lancaster, 

 Pennsylvania. — From Mr. Redmond Conyngham. 



The Committee, consisting of Mr. Taylor, Mr. Booth, and 

 Dr. Hays, to whom was referred a Communication, entitled 

 " Notice of the Oolitic Formation in America, with Descrip- 

 tions of some of its Organic Remains, by Isaac Lea," reported 

 in favour of publication, which was ordered accordingly. 



In this paper Mr. Lea describes a number of fossils from New 

 Granada and Cuba, which he considers to belong properly to the 

 forms resembling those well known to exist in the Oolites (Jura for- 

 mation) of Europe. In a note Mr. Lea mentions, that after his paper 

 was written, the work of the distinguished geologist, Von Buch, was 

 received by him from the author. In this work, Von Buch describes 

 and figures some of the fossils from the same formation in New 

 Granada, taken by Humboldt nearly forty years since to Europe, 



