76 Correspondence of Jerome Nickles. 
new result to his favorite science a electro-chemistry, to 
which he has rendered so great servi 
Review of Geology for the year "1864 and 1865; by A. 
De.essE and DE Laprarent. 1 vol, 8vo, 279 pages. ~ This j in- 
teresting publication appears now for the fourth time. By the 
care which the authors use to join the facts which they bring 
forward to those which have been presented in the preceding 
volumes, they have been able to make this series a history of 
the _ of geology since 1860, The work is divided into 
four parts; Ist, Preliminaries; 2d, Rocks; 3d, Rock forma- 
tions ; 4th, Descriptive Geology. The rocks have been espe- 
cially treated of by Delesse, whose valuable works on the sub- 
ject are well known; de Lapparent has had charge of the form- 
ations; and the other parts have been prepared by the two au- 
thors in common 
Les Lois économiques par A. DE Metz-Nosuat. 1 vol. 8vo, 
739 pp.—This volume is a résumé of the course of political 
economy which the author presented in 1865 and 1866, at the 
University of Nancy. Little cared for by despotical govern- 
ments, political economy is a science quite new among the 
rench. It is very little taught in France, and it is only two 
years since a chair of Political Economy was first established in 
the Faculty of the Law School at Paris. A.de Metz-Noblat has 
founded the department at Nancy, and pursues it there with 
great success. The beautiful volume of which we give account, 
introduces the reader in a very complete manner, to thé science 
as established by Sully, Colbert, Vauban, Adam Smith, Mal- 
thus, Turgot, Condillac, Condoreet, J.B. Say, Ricardo, Mac- 
Culloch, and other celebrated nam 
La Science et les Savants en 1866, par VictoR MEUNIER. 
3d year, 1867.—The author exhibits ‘here the same ees and 
nerve as in the preceding volume, (this Jour., vol. xli, p. 1 10). 
The —— subjects are Heterogeny; Ante-historic times; 
fabrication of diamonds; aérial navigation ; the whole enriched 
with curious biographical facts for any who are interested in 
the scientific movement of our times, and the men who culti- ~ 
became publisher in chief of the Cosmos. He impresses ! his 
energy on this periodical. At this moment, he is exposing 
the abuses which have crept into the French ‘scientific organ- 
ee which, in fact, are inherent in all human 
we 
