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Electricity in its relations to Chemistry. The third and last volume will be on 
Stoichiometry and the principles of Chemical Classification. This volume is 
now in preparation, and will be published next.” 
to have been very carefully supervised. 
One circumstance in connection with this work cannot fail to attract 
course of study. Such a change Prof. Cooke has been able to effect 
since his appointment at Cambridge, and now his chemical teachings fill 
a course of recitations and lectures commencing in the Sophomore year 
and covering two or three years. is is a great change in the policy of 
a college where this subject was formerly a by-word, and it offers every 
encouragement for efforts to secure a similar change in other leading 
colleges. For this refurm, as for the high scientific character of his present 
work, Prof. Cooke will receive the hearty thanks and esteem of all teachers 
in this department of science. : 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.—Catalogue of the Publi- 
cations of Societies and of the periodical works in the Library of the 
Sinithsonian Institution July dy 1858. Foreign works. ‘ashington, 1859. 
Pp. 259, 8vo, with a Supplement.—The arrangement of this ca’ 
valuable aid to the student in ferreting out the often enigmatical references 
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correspondence. Only those who have undertaken researches can appre- 
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