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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



They deserve the attention of the natural philosopher also 

 from the influence these phenomena have in experiments 

 relating to the decomposition of light. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Cultivation of lYiLR. van Mons, of the Institutes of France and Hol- 

 ATiit trees. land, is publishing a " Theoretical and Practical System of 

 Fructiculture, or Instructions for the Work of the Nursery 

 and Fruitgarden in the Order of the Months." The exten- 

 sive correspondence of the author having brought hint ac- 

 quainted with all the improvements lately made in this 

 branch of science by a great number of persons distin- 

 guished for their education and talents, who have withdrawn 

 from the fatigues of war or the toils of politics, or who, 

 grieving at public and private calamities, or chagrined at 

 the ingratitude rind injustice of mankind, have retired to 

 forget their sorrows in the quiet enjoyment of their gardens, 

 he has conceived he should be rendering a service to many, 

 by making them more generally known. The work, which" 

 commenced in January last, and will finish with December, 

 is on the principle of a gardener's" calendar, and will include 

 every thing relating to the culture of fruit. It will give in 

 detail the whole management of fruit trees in the nursery 

 and in the garden, not from books however, but from the 

 author's own experience, and the communications of hhf 

 friends. 



Madictfl LeG- 

 tutes. 



Middlesex Hospital 



Dr. Satterxey's Course of Clinical Instruction at the 

 Middlesex Hospital will begin the first week in November: 

 the attendance on the patients will be continued daily, and 

 Lectures will be given once a week, or oftener, when it may 

 be necessary, at eleven o'clock. Mr, Cartwricht, As- 

 sistant Surgeon to the Hospital, will undertake such occa- 

 sional demonstrations of morbid anatomy, as may be re- 

 quired for the illustration of the respective cases. The ob- 

 jects of the Course will ako be extended to $uch remarkable 



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