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to botany, needing only its application to mineralogy), an 

 easy alphabet of analogies would be established for faciUtat- 

 ing the study of the different branches separately, or in con- 

 nection ; in which opinion Mr. Mudie afterwards expressed 

 his entire concurrence. We shall notice the paper which 

 relates to mineralogy, and which was to be brought forward 

 on the 6th of April last, in its proper place, next month. 



At the meeting on the 16th of March, the chairman 

 announced that, on the occasion of the anniversary meeting 

 of the Society, in November next, the council would pro- 

 ceed to award two silver medals, respectively for the best 

 essays on electrotype, and general or specific phytography ; 

 the latter subject having been selected in order to encourage 

 greater care in the arrangement of the details of such an 

 essay, and the insertion of concise summaries, as the pre- 

 mium will be awarded to that which excels in these most 

 desirable particulars. 



REVIEWS. 



Model Mapping, suggestive of a General System of Drainage 

 and Irrigation. By J. Bailey Denton, Surveyor, ^c. Svo. 

 London, J. Weak, 1 842. 



The importance of Geology in its practical applications, 

 is, as we have contended from the beginning of our editorial 

 duties, the main reason which should suggest its general 

 study, at least by members of those professions in which 

 Civil Engineering or Surveying are the prominent qualifica- 

 tions, and, on this account, we need offer no further expla- 

 nation of the introduction of a review of the above pamphlet 

 into the pages of the present work ; the utility of its objects 

 and the practicability of the plan therein proposed, are, how- 

 ever, additional recommendations of no small weight. 



