THE TECHNOLOGIST. [August 1, 1864 



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Coffee and Chicory : their Culture, Chemical Composition, 

 Preparation, and Consumption, &c. By P. L. Simmonds. 

 E. and F. N. Spon. 

 In this little handbook, by the Editor of the Technologist, is 

 compressed a large amount of practical information on the culture and 

 consumption of coffee and its adjunct, chicory. It contains numerous 

 practical hints, useful both to the producer and consumer. We have 

 republished in the present number the chapter on the " Chemical 

 Analysis of Coffee." The book, we may further observe, is profusely 

 illustrated with well-executed woodcuts. 



Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain 

 Living in the Years 1807-8. Compiled by Win. Walker, jun. 

 Second Edition. E. and F. N. Spon. 

 The following extract from the introduction, by Robert Hunt, F.R.S., 

 &c, conveys the best idea of the contents of this interesting little 

 volume :— 



" We have advanced to our present position in the scale of nations by 

 the efforts of a few chosen minds. Every branch of human industry has 

 been benefited by the discoveries of science. The discoverers are 

 therefore deserving of that hero-worship which sooner or later they 

 receive from all. 



" The following pages are intended to convey to the general reader a 

 brief but correct account of the illustrious dead, whose names are for 

 ever associated with one of the most brilliant eras in British science. It 

 will be remembered that, in the earliest years of the present century, 

 the world witnessed the control and application of steam by Watt, 

 Symington, and Trevithick ; the great discoveries in physics and 

 chemistry by Dalton, Cavendish, Wollaston, and Davy, — in astronomy 

 by Herschel, Maskelyne, and Baily; the inventions of the spinning- 

 mule and power-loom by Crompton and Cartwright ; the introduction 

 of machinery into the manufacture of paper, by Bryan Donkin and 

 others ; the improvements in the printing-press, and invention of stereo- 

 type printing, by Charles Earl Stanhope ; the discovery of vaccination 

 by Jenner ; the introduction of gas into general use by Murdock ; and 

 the construction (in a great measure) of the present system of canal 

 communication by Jessop, Chapman, Telford, and -Rennie. During the 

 same period of time were likewise living Count Rumford ; Robert 

 Brown, the botanist ; William Smith, ' The Father of English Geology ; ' 

 Thomas Young, the natural philosopher ; Brunei ; Bentham ; Mauds- 

 lay ; and Francis Ronalds, who, by securing perfect insulation, was the 

 first to demonstrate the practicability of passing an electric message 



