Re 
(140 Miscellaneous a 
the Birds of Spring, fr. sala the American Silkworm, le Trouvelll 
the Land —_ of New England, E. 8. Morse; Reviews, Natural History 
Miscellany, ete. 
, contains, The Recent Bird Tracks of the Basin of Minas, C. F. 
Hartt; the Habits of the Gorilla, W. Winwood Reade; the Moss An- 
imals or Fresh Water Polyzoa, socaltilaelt: the Land Snails of New Eng- 
land, continued; Parasitic Plants, G. D. Phippen ; Oyster Culture, F. 
ellowes ; the Scorpion of Texas, G. ee gak .; A note from 
through Faber’s translation. They furnish, undoubedly the most com- 
pact classifieation of reactions yet publis shed Dr. Himes’s translation be 
ing from the seventh German edition, is considera rably improved, He pro 
poses it as a suitable text book for inbionatoey instruction in those one 
who are assigning to Natural Science a more prominent place 
courses of study. The book is convenient in size (ntavo', ant) 1s is pu 
ose in good style. 
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of I Important 
oe of the soe sees bade Political, Civil, Military and Social 
affai 
Literature, ‘aig Aprouland and Mechaitesl Industry. Volume 
ge 8vo. New 
ae. the volume for 1866 has a Ponte of the r : 
Prussia as its frontispiece, and beyond, others of Bismarck and Gari 
6. Haton’s Arithmetic and the Decimal System—Prof. H. A. New 
ton, who has been among the foremost in Labets to secure the introduc 
tion of the decimal system into the United States, has prepared an admira- 
ble rey on the ag as an addition to a new oo of ep? 
recent 
system, this pine of ian ought at once to eke 
a all the ae gehae n the schools of migke e 
a Bary al sale as So serge 
egal re adapted to the use of the medical juris, physicist 
and general chemist ; by Tee, Wena, onary, M.D., Professor of Chem 
