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jSleiv Scientific Books. 



Article XIIL 



Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press, 



Dr. Thomson will shortly publish an Account of the present 

 State of Sweden, from a journey performed by himself during the 

 Autumn of 1812, principally v/ith a View to Geological and other 

 Scientific researches. 



Mr. Neil, Secretary to the Vvernerian Society, will publish his 

 Translation of Daubiusson's celebrated Work on Basalt, early in 

 February. It will be accompanied with Notes by the Translator. 



The Rev, Mr. Fleming, Member of the Wernerian Society, has 

 finished his Translation of Blumenbach's interesting Treatise, en- 

 titled " Specimen Archaiologiaj Telluris.'* It will be accompanied 

 with Illustrations drawn from the Petrifactions of the Scottish Stra- 

 ta ; and will 'be published in February. 



The First Part of the Second Volume of the Memoirs of the 

 Wernerian Society is in the Press, 



A Translation, with Notes, by an eminent Mineralogist of the 

 Wernerian Society, of Cuvier and Brongniart's Mineralogical De- 

 scription of the Country around Paris, is preparing for publication. 



Professor Jameson is printing a New and much enlarged Edition 

 of his System of Mineralogy. 



Shortly will be published, in One VoL Royal 4to., Diilenii His- 

 toria Miiscorum, editio altera, cui subnectitur Appendix, in qua in- 

 dicantur nomina hodierna plantarum a Dillenio descriptarum. 



A Treatise on the Motion of Rockets, with the Theory and 

 Practice of Naval Gunnery, by W. Moore, of the Royal Military 

 Academy, Woolwich, will be published in the course of the present 

 month. 



Sir James Plall is about to publish an Essay on Gothic Archi- 

 tecture. 



Mr. Bullock, proprietor of the Liverpool Museum, has an- 

 nounced a splendid \Vork relative to the recent discoveries in Na- 

 tural History, with Plates from Subjects principally in his own 

 Collection. 



Mr, Stevenson, Oculist to the Princess of Wales, is about to pub- 

 lish a Treatise on the Cataract. 



Mr. Charles Fothergill has in the Press an Essay on the Philoso- 

 phy, Study, and Use of Natural History. 



Dr. Thomas Young has prepared an Introduction to Medical Li- 

 terature, including a System of practical Nosology. 



Mr. H. Smithers, Colliery Surveyor, of Bristol, is about to pub- 

 lish Reports on the Strata of Great Britain, with particular relation 

 to the Limestone, Iron, and Coal Strata. 



Mr. J. H. Wishart is translating Scarpa's Treatise on liernia, 

 from the Italian. 



The Library of Mrs. Anne Newton has been announced for Sale, 

 by Messrs. Lefgh and Sotheby : it comprises chiefly the Collection 

 of the areat Sir Isaac Newton. 



Early Comymuiications for this Department of our Journal 

 ivill be thanlcfullij received. 



